The Camel and its master--Occasional fury of the animal--A boy killed by a Camel--Another instance of an infuriated Camel--Theory respecting the Arab and his Camel--Apparent stupidity of the Camel--Its hatred of a load, and mode of expressing its disapprobation--Riding a Camel through the streets--A narrow escape--Ceremony of weaning a young Camel--The Camel's favourite food--Structure of the foot and adaptation to locality--Difficulty in provisioning--Camel's hair and skin--Sal-ammoniac and desert fuel--The Camel and the needle's eye--Straining at a gnat and swallowing a Camel 233 THE BACTRIAN CAMEL. General description of the animal--Its use in mountain roads--Peculiar formation of the foot--Uses of a mixed breed--Its power of enduring cold--Used chiefly as a beast of draught--Unfitness for the plough--The cart and mode of harnessing--The load which it can draw--Camel-skin ropes--A Rabbinical legend 244 THE HORSE. The Hebrew words which signify the Horse--The Horse introduced into Palestine from Egypt--Similarity of the war-horse of Scripture and the Arab horse of the present day--Characteristics of the Horse--Courage and endurance of the Horse--Hardness of its unshod hoofs--Love of the Arab for his Horse--Difficulty of purchasing the animal--The Horse prohibited to the Israelites--Solomon's disregard of the edict--The war-chariot, its form and use--Probable construction of the iron chariot--The cavalry Horse--Lack of personal interest in the animal 248 THE ASS. Importance of the Ass in the East--Its general use for the saddle--Riding the Ass not a mark of humility--The triumphal entry--White Asses--Character of the Scriptural Ass--Saddling the Ass--The Ass used in agriculture--The Ass's millstone--The water-wheel and the plough--Reminiscences of the Ass in the Scriptural narrative--Its value as property--The flesh of the Ass--The siege of Samaria and its horrors--Various legends respecting the Ass--The impostor and his fate--Samson and Balaam 264 THE WILD ASS. The Arod and Pere of Scripture--Various allusions to the Wild Ass--Its swiftness and wildness--The Wild Ass of Asia and Africa--Knowledge of the animal displayed by the sacred writers--How the Wild Ass is hunted--Excellence of its flesh--Sir R. K. Porter's meeting with a Wild Ass--Origin of the domestic Ass--The Wild Asses of Quito 279 THE MULE. Ancient use of the Mule--Various breeds of Mule--Supposed date of its introduction into Palestine--Mule-breeding forbidden to the Jews--The Mule as a saddle-animal--Its use on occasions of state--The king's Mule--Mules brought from Babylon after the captivity--Obstinacy of the Mule--The Mule as a beast of burden--The "Mule's burden" of earth--Mules imported by the Phoenicians--Legends respecting the Mule 285 SWINE.