The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-31 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,

NEWCASTLE UPON-TYNE, IrsE 29.

Acceptt\nces for the Northumberland Plate of 200 sows
added to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 soya each. Two
miles.

age at lb
Caller Ou
0 ldminst3r
D ollar .. 4 8 7
Limosina
Borealis .. 4 7 12
Honest John 4 7 9
Trust
Donnybrook 4 7 3
King Charming
Hypermnestra, 4 6 13
Alice

Age st lb
Tottenham 3 6 6
Oceola
Hymettus
Greville
Baktitchi Serai 3 6 0
Found Again 3 5 12
Tooi Tooi
Sir Roger
Wharfing,r .. 3 5 10
Sandeela h
Lady de TrarJrd

RACING FIXT

Nye 1
Maidstone ..

Ascot ..

Hampton l5
Newton

baiham
Bibury

Newmarket July
Cerllele .
Pontefract
Abingdon
Cambridge
Liverpool July
Stamford

Brighton 2
Brighton Club
Lewes
Huntingdon . . 9
Wolverhampton , 9
Reading
Egli=
01. ford lB

Weymouth 1
Warwick September 6
Leicester 8
Bridgwater
Doncaster ..

Bedford 4
Northallerton. 6
Newmarket second Oct. 10

Lincoln
Gloucester
Newmarket Houghton 24
IMBER.

Worcester Autumn .... 1
Shrewsbury Autumn .. 14

Leamington &War. Hunt 22

IRISH.
Jnts.

Curragh 2B, 29, 30

SEPTEMRER.

C arra& 6, 7, S

Ocroink.

Curragh
STEEPLECHASING FIXTURES FOR 1861.

NOTEXBER.
Leamington and Warwickshire Haut 22

THE CAMEL,

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In cities, in fairs, or other much.frequentel
places, the camel seems habitually dull ; but no
sooner does he find himself in the desert, than his
spirits return ; he snuffs the sweet air, he looks
gladly over the unimpeded landscape, he feels him-.
self at home ; and if his rider be familiar. to him,
trots away at the rate of 12 or 13 miles an hour
without the least urging. In cases of necessity, he
can, as we have already remarked, knock off 18 or
20 miles in the same period. One of the pleasures
of this mode of travelling, not often noticed, is the
great height of the rider from the ground, preserv-.
iog him from the fierce heat reflected from the sand,
which on an ass, or even on a horse, sometimes
scorches the feet; but aloft on the camel's saddle,
the air is comparatively cool, and rendered more so
by the swift pace of the animal. Owing to the
structure of his foot, he does not sink in the
sand, but spreading the sole as he goes, appears
to fly over the surface rather than to gallop.
Although his eye appears dull, his sight is long
and piercing, and in the fineness of the sense of
smelling, is perhaps exceeded by no other animal,
since he can scent water, which has scarcely any
odour at all, at the distance of a mile and a half, or
two miles ; we should even say, from observation,
that he can scent it more than twice as far, for, on
approaching the Nile from the desert, we have
known him voluntarily to quicken his pace at the
distance of four or five miles. The delight imparted
by immense heat, which appears to confer upon
some individuals a sixth sense, will continue during
eight or ten hours, bubbling, seething, and, thrilling
through the frame like a sublime intoxication; but
by degrees weariness nod languor succeed, thirst
makes itself felt, and as the sun nods towards the
west, the eye glances about wistfully in search of a
clump of palm-trees or a rock, the usual indications
of a fountain. Upon discovering the well-known
signal, the dromedary rears his head, turns, gives
his rider a look of encouragement, and then, if not
quite subdued by fatigue, bolts off at full speed.
How many days he can go without drinking, has
never perhaps been exactly ascertained—in fact, the
power of endurance varies greatly in different indi•
viduals—but it has been stated, on very good
authority, that the dromedary can subsist nine days
without water. though exposed the whole time to a
heat resembling that of a furnace. It is certain that
when the camel does drink, he always appears to
be laying in a stock for a week or so, and he has
evee been known to swallow seven gallons and a
half, or thirty quarts of water at one time.—
Chambers's Journal, New and Improved Series.