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Title: Wild Spain ... records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun, natural history and exploration
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Chapman, Abel, 1851-1929 Buck, Walter John
Subjects: Hunting -- Spain Game and game-birds -- Spain
Publisher: London, Gurney and Jackson
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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, which he judged to beabout twenty days old. I can send you any further particulars required, and ifthe unbelievers will not swallow _your camel, we must dowhat Mr. Saunders did with the doubted specimen Lofthe cranes egg), and bring before them a Spanish-borncamel, hump and all. Nothing is easier. Sport prettygood so far—five stags, four pigs, two lynxes. We are also kindly privileged to quote the followingstatement of Lord Lilfords personal observation of thewild camels :— I was not aware till I saw Saunders noteat the end of your paper and read the subsequent cor-respondence in Tlie Field, that any one doubted the exist-ence of camels in a virtually wild state in the marisma.I once saw four or five of them together at a vast distance,and, in 1872, came across their spoor several times whenexploring the marismas of the Goto. Their existence isperfectly well known to many people at San Lucar, and, * Wild-bred cattle, many of tlieiu destined for the bnll-rings ofJerez or Seville.
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o o B O s H f^ \ ^ WILD CAMELS IN EUROPE. 99 no doubt, also at Jerez. I heard of them first in 1856. . . .What Mr. Buck says of the habits of the camel is, as faras I can remember, pretty much what I heard fromseveral of the miardas of the Goto in 1872. . . . M3 sonreminds me of what I had quite forgotten, viz., that heand our doctor saw some camels in the marisma some-where on the proper right of the western branch of theGuadalquivir last May (1883), when I was confined to myship by an attack of gout in the right hand. Lastly, we quote the following from a Catalogue of theMammalia of Andalucia, bv Don Antonio Machado yNunez, published at Seville in 1869 :— The first camels,which were introduced with the object of breeding them,came from the Canary Islands, and in a few years l)ecamea herd of about eighty. In 1833, a few years after intro-duction, they were used as beasts of burden and transportin the province of Cadiz, employed in the carriage ofmaterials used in making the high ro

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