At The Time Of Their Departure For Armenia The Ryhanlu Buy Up Buffaloes
And Arab Camels, Which They Exchange In Armenia For A Better Breed Of
Camels And For Some Other Cattle, For The Aleppo Market.
The Armenian or
Caramanian camel is taller and stronger than the Arab, its neck is more
bent, and the neck and upper part of the thighs are covered with thick
hair; the Arab camel, on the contrary, has very little hair.
The common
load of the latter is about six hundred weight, or one hundred and
twenty rotolos, but the Armenian camel will carry one hundred and sixty
rotolos, or eight hundred weight. The price of an Arabian camel is about
two hundred and fifty piastres, that of an Armenian at Aleppo is twice
as much. This breed of camels is produced by a he-dromedary and a she-
Arabian camel. The people of Anatolia keep these male dromedaries as
stallions for the purpose of covering the females of the smaller Arabian
breed, which the Turkmans, yearly bring to their market. If left to
breed among themselves the Caramanian camels produce a puny race of
little value. The Arabs use exclusively their smaller breed of camels,
because they endure heat, thirst, and fatigue, infinitely better than
the others, which are well suited to hilly districts. The camels of the
Turkmans feed upon a kind of low bramble called in Turkish Kufan, which
grows in abundance upon the hills; in the evening they descend the
mountains and come trotting towards the tents, where each camel receives
a ball of paste, made of barley meal and water, weighing about one
pound.
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