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Show CAMELS OF MONGOLIA. Thousands Wend Tholr Way Over the Hough Trails of the Tartar Steppes. The popular idea regarding "the ship of the desert" is completely at fault if applied to the camels of Mongolia Mon-golia and Pechili. according to the Century. Cen-tury. Juvenile natural histories talk of the soft padded foot for which the animal an-imal is so distinguished, as if a "sandy bottom" were the only surface upon which he could walk with comfort. But 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 un-known luxury to this mueh-enduring beast. How vast is the number of camels thus employed may be guessed from the fart that during one day's journey we passed more than eight hundred wend-ing wend-ing their dilatory way from the Tartar strppr-s to the plains of Chi-li. They chietiy carried soda-soap, a kind of an- , mini alkali or lye found on the borders of Mongolia, and cut into blocks, each weighing about two hundred and sixty pounds. At no time is the camel a prepossessing object. But here nature provides him with so shaggy a covering that his xm.-gainly xm.-gainly form becomes even mere hid-eous. hid-eous. Camel's wool, bv the way, used u i i LL..uu.iii ...inrr m |