| Show WILD camels IN abl the filp of tho ir lucirn to la cuil coi iii is according to a bisp itch from st petersburg the ild camel has been discovered in numbers in th t coition of abia which lies b tat lobner and saju ill di po of the doubt i that haxe hax e hith crit pie on the question as to i ht alie the of the desert really emst in an condition as alie e ork arb une two species of mauu hac been in use th it ann n as ane diomed m ii h only one hump nd houim in anilia arabia ami africa while the one with two humai i met with in central asia persia and the south of russia both species ciure liure in the sculptures of assyria and arc mentioned in the oldest books of the bible but always as domestic animals and no trace exists of their being drafted from their lavaye state into civilized life indeed it has generally been supposed that the camel never existed otherwise than as a beast of burden and the few specimens of wild dromedaries dro which have hitherto been secured by travelers and hunters have been regarded as merely some of the domestic species that had reverted to the freedom of barbarism zoologically speaking the newly discovered wild camel of lobner does not differ widely from the domesticated animal except there is almost an entire lack of hump and eliat its sagacity and sense are developed to a most remarkable of keenness and whereas we have been accustomed to associate this animal with ideas of the torrid heat of the african and arabian deserts it would appear that it thrives now liere so well as in alie coldest portions of siberia suffering no inconvenience even from the most severe winters when the thermometer is many decrees below zero |
