The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-08-05
H4pm Camsls anu gSpssowa Horses i.

THE milk of the eamel is highly es-
teemed blythe Arab3as an aFticle of diet,
and is prescribed ali specific in many
cases Of dlsease. Lady Dun Gordon, who
resided several years Ii Egypt in the vain
hope of recovering from consumption in
that mild climate, drank Scamel's milk
every morning, and derived good deal of
temporary benefit from it. In her spicy
letters home she thus wrote of the novel
beverage: cit has the merit of being
quite delicious. wish Icould send you
a jug Of it every morning, such a. drink;
it is better than any other milk, with thick
froth like whipped cream. The Arabs
think 1t very good for sick people; and
man called Sheriff brings his camel here
every morning and milks her for me. Her
baby camel is SO funny he looks all legs
and big, black eyes, with soft, fluffy, buff
.coiored hair, and so very little body to
such tall legs. sLwish, too, you could see
the camcls have their dinner; they are the
only people who use a table-cloib. The
camel driver spreads cloth on the ground,
and pours heap of maize (dourra) upon
it, and old Mr.. and Mrs. Camel sit down
at the top and bottom very gravely, and
the others all take their places in proper
order, and eat quite politely, bowin their
long necks up and down; only one was
sulky, and went and had his dinner by
himself, like q naughty boy, and some
times, the man said, he would not eat at
ALL
When in Capetown, Africa, in one of
her long journeys after the health that she
never found, Lady Duff Gordon frequently
mentioned the wonderful strength and en-.
durance of the native breed of horses. The
animals are very scantily fed, and, as no
grass grows in the region, their fodder is
restricted to oats, which they consume,
straw and all. Often after hours of travel
the only refreshment offered the beasts is
aroA in the dust; but, this really seems to
strengthen and nourish the tough, hardy
little aquadrupeds, which are thus de-
scribed by the lady from whom we have
already quoted:
81 could write a volume on Cape horses
Such valiant little beasts and so composed
in temper never saw They are nearly
all bays-a few very dark gray. have
seen no black, and only one dark chestnut.
They are not cobs and look very little of
them and have no beauty; but one Of
these little brutes, ungoomed, half-fed,
seldom stabbed, will carry six and half
foot Dutchman sixty miles day, day after
day, at shutting, easy canter, six miles
an hour. You off saddle every three
hours and let him roll; you also let him
drink all he can get; his coat shines and
his eye is bright, and unsoundness is very
rare. They are never properly broke and
the soft-mouthcd colts are sometimes
made vicious by the cruel bits and heavy
hands, but by nature their temper is per-
feet. H..
Every morning all the horses in the
village are turned loose, and general gal.
lop takes place to the water-tank, where
they drink and lounge a little; and the
young ones are fetched home by the dri.
vers, while the old stagers know they will
be wanted, and saunter off by themselves.
. To see farmer outspan and turn
the team of active little beasts loose on
the boundless weld to amuse themselves
for an hour or two, sure that they will be
there, would astonish you a little; and
then to offer horse nothing but a roll in
the dust to refresh himself withal.
How the cattle live is a standing mar
vel to me. The whole weld Common
which extends all over the country just
clothed with few square miles Of corn
here and therc) is covered with low, thin
scrub about eighteen inches high, called
hen0stes.bOsch-lOOking like meagcr arbOr
vitae or pale juniper. The cattle and
sheep will not touch this juicy Hottento
fig; but under each little bush, fancy
they crop few blades of grass, and ON this
they keep in very good condition.
The noble oxen, with their huge
horns mine or ten feet from tip to tip), arr
never fed, though they work hard, nor art
the sheep.
1.-THE horses get little forage (oats
straw and ally. l should like you to Sc.
eight or ten of these swift, wiry littl'
horses harnessed to wagon-a mere fla
platform on wheels. In front stands
Withholding Hottcntot, all patches ant
feathers, and drives them best pace, al
in hand, using a whip like fishing-rod
with which he touches them, not savage
ly, but with a skill which would make al
old stagc-coachman burst with envy t.
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