camel-foal

Updated: May 1, 2025

It is curious that the cry of the foal is very much like a child, and I once turned round to see a negress child crying, and found it was a camel-foal. In marching the foal is tied upon the back of its mother, and so borne along, the dam grumbling regular choruses to the cry of the foal. The mother does not quarrel so much about her child as the first she-camel.

James Richardson - Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846