Show CAMELS OF MONGOLIA tharies Tha rids wend their way over the rough trails or of the tartar steppes the popular idea regarding the ship of the desert is completely complete ay at fault if applied to the camels of mongolia and bechill Pe chili chill according to the century juvenile natural histories talk of the soft padded foot for which the animal is so distinguished as if a fan sandy dy bottom were the only surface upon w which he could walk with comfort but bat the greater part of all mercantile transport in north china is performed by camels and except in the immediate neighborhood of pekin sand is an unknown luxury to this much enduring beast beas t how vast is the number of camels thus employed may be guessed from the fact that during one days journey we pawed passed more than eight hundred wending their cheh dilatory way from the tartar steppes to the plains of ani ll they I 1 chiefly carried soda soap a kind of animal alkali alka li or lye found on the borders of mongolia and cut into bloc blocks each weighing about two hundred and sixty pounds A at t no time is the camel akrep a prepossessing os object but here nature provides him with so shaggy a covering that his bis ungainly form becomes even more hideous camels wool by the way us used ed for padding clothes is an article of considerable sid erable traffic hereabouts and when spring zephyrs take the place of winter blasts the herdsmen of the plateau shear their camels by a process which preserves the merit of extreme sim simplicity city pulling out by hand whatever has not been shed naturally many animals are kept for the sole purpose of yielding wool but the amount obtainable from fin each is singularly tinned to the huge bulk balk of its producer A heavy fleece taken from a full grown camel will seldom average over seven pounds while eight dollars is a high price for the of one hundred and thirty three pounds |