LETTER...TO EDWIN DE LEON, UNITED STATES CONSUL GENERAL IN EGYPT, ON THE TREATMENT AND USE OF THE DROMEDARY

35th Cong., 1st Sess. SMD271. [Washington, 1858. 35pp, Disbound. Numerous text illustrations. Light wear, Very Good. An interesting addition to the literature on the introduction of the camel into "the desert districts" of the Great American West. Bey, of Cairo, provides much information on the uses, care and feeding, and domestication of the camel, which is ideally suited to desert life. Not in Eberstadt, Graff, Decker, Soliday, Rittenhouse.