above. Hee alone of the hornles beasts hath a
double stomack, to disgest his thorny hard
food. Therefore the skin that covers his mouth
and stomack, is througout rough: Some write
of their marrow and sewet. They are found in
Africa and Asia, in Bactria especially and Ara∣bia,
and in Ionia by the city Clazomenia, where
they leave whole fields for them to feed in. Mi∣thridates
being overcome by the river Rhijn∣dacus,
they were first (saith Salust) seen at
Rome; but there wee of them seen in the
Achaian and Asian warre. Ptolomy at Lagus
shewed a Bactrian one all over coleblack
among his sights. They delight in thorny and
woody food; they brows also on bulrush tops,
nor refuse they barly alone, or with hay, or thin
low grasse; sometimes content with thistles:
Now a dayes they that travell through the de∣serts
of Arabia, give each five barly cakes a day,
as bigh each as an Quince: They can goe four
dayes together without drinke; but when they
come to water, they drinke so much, as not on∣ly
quenches thirst, but serves for the day fol∣lowing.
They love muddy, and avoid cleare
water: they stamp on purpose in their water to
thicken it. The later ones they say can refrain
from drinking 12, nay 15 dayes together, if
need be; and some eye-witnesses affirme that in
Biled Elgerid, if they feed on fresh grasse, they
never drinke. About their Engendring, the po∣strue
and manner read Pliny, and Aristotle. In
coupling-time they retire into lonely places;
when none can safely come near them, but
their keeper. Some say the female goes ten
months, and in the eleventh brings forth; and a
year intermitted couples again. They bring
forth in the spring, and some say, they pre∣sently
after couple. Writers differ about it.
They have three enemies, the Horse, the Lion,
and the Gadfly. Cyrus with his Camels
worsted Craesus his Horse; for Horses cannot
endure their smell And the Arabs smeare their
Camels with fish fat, to keep away the flies
from vexing them.
They are troubled with the gout, whereof
they dy, and shedding all their hair, is another
of their diseases. They run mad sometimes
through lust, and remember a wrong, and kill
whoever they meet, even their guides. This
frensie lasts fourty dayes. Some say, Hierom
writes of one in Bactria, that had killed divers
men; there were above thirty men to master
him with strong ropes, and a great out-cry.
His eyes were blood-red, he fomed at mouth,
his tongue swelled, and he roared hideously.
Some live fifty years, some last hundred, un∣lesse
change of hair bring them into diseases,
they live longest in Bactria. Their disposition,
nature, appears in their revengefulnes, teachable∣nesse,
love of musick, modesty, and naturall af∣fection.
He layes up an injury long, being stro∣ken,
and watches occasion to be revenged. He
may be taught by a drum to lead a dance; they
use a yong one to tread on a hote floor, which
makes him lift up his feet by turns; a drum
being still beaten at door. They use him to it a
year in this school; and after, when ever he
hears a drum, he falls a capring; when he be∣gins
to tire, musick will invite him on, when
blows cannot force him. He will not couple
with his dame. If being blinded he be betrayed
to it, in revenge he will kill the causer of it. He
is compassionate. He eats all night; but for∣beares,
if any in the stable be sick. This the
Indians observed. When they would have
them speedy▪ they take their yong ones along
some miles with the dame; Shee will double
her pace to returne to her yong ones. He is
very usefull. In medicine, the flesh provokes
urine. The fat of the bunch smoked helps the
Hemrods. The brain dried, with vineger, the fal∣ling
sicknesse. The blood furthers conception,
and is good against the stoppings of the mo∣ther,
if used after the moneths. The milk eases
the belly, being thin and waterish, it helps the
cramp, and wakens appetite. The urine, (which
fullers also use) whitens and cleanses the teeth.
The tayl dried loosens. The dung with oyl
makes the hair curl. The same, white, pounded
with hony, allays swellings, and clenses wounds.
It is said, that the bristles of the tayl wreath, and
tied to the left arme cures the quartane; if you
will beleeve it, we know that the Arabs eat the
milk. Galen saith, the Alexandrians eat the
flesh. Heliogabalus, Apicius like, fed on it some∣times
at supper; and the heels being tenderest.
The Jews of old made it their food. Some
reckon that, and the milk among dainties. This,
in those that are near foaling, is of a lesse
cheesy, and buttery substance. Historians re∣late
their use in war. Hence some armes have
their names, as we shall shew, if God give leave,
in our Philology. In Arabia, Aegypt, &c. they
travell not without them. They are good for
carriage, but stinted to so much weight; usually
six hundred pound; for a need, a thousand.
While they are loaden, and unloaden, they ly
down on their belly; and feeling they have
their just load, they rise up, and will carry no
more. The African Camels will travell with
ease fifthy dayes together without intermis∣sion.
Some are fat, some leane, there are red∣dish,
and white. The swiftest are called Drome∣daries;
these are lower then the other. They will
travell above an hundred mile in one day.
They are fleeter then Nisaean horses. The
females are swiftest. The Arabian are double-bunched
on the back, called thence Dityloi.
The Bactrian are held strongest, and have one
bunch under the belly to ly on. The Caspian
are as big as the greatest horse. The African
are of three kinds; the first is called Hugium,
who are indeed huge great, and strong, able
to carry a 1000 pound weight. The second
sort are lesse, double-bunched on the back,
called Bec••eti, fit for carriage, and to ride on;
the Asians know no other. The last they call
Raguahil, they are lanke, and slender; fit onely
for the sadle, he will carry a man an hundred
miles a day. On these the King of Tambutus
uses to send his messengers to Segelmessis, or
Darha, 900 miles of, in the space of eight dayes,