Dromedary

And now, thanks to soaring oil prices, the bond between Indian and Dromedary is tighter than ever!

Archive 2008-05-01 2008

Hoorn's Harbour Tower, as I have said, has a charm beyond description; but Enkhuisen's -- known as the Dromedary -- is unwieldly and plain.

A Wanderer in Holland 1903

He made the voyage with them in the "Dromedary" from the Bay of Islands to the mouth of the Shukehanga, but announced his intention of leaving them the day after their arrival.

John Rutherford, the White Chief George Lillie Craik 1832

When the "Prince Regent" schooner, which accompanied the "Dromedary," lay at anchor in the river Shukehanga, [Y] a chief named Moodooi, [Z] greatly to the comfort of the captain, came one day on deck and

John Rutherford, the White Chief George Lillie Craik 1832

"Dromedary," was sometimes admitted, during the passage, into the cabin, and asked by the officers to take a glass of wine, when he always tasted it, with perfect politeness, though his countenance strongly indicated how much he disliked it.

John Rutherford, the White Chief George Lillie Craik 1832

We may give, in illustration of this custom, Cruise's description of the reception by their relatives of the nine New Zealanders who came along with him in the "Dromedary" from Port Jackson.

John Rutherford, the White Chief George Lillie Craik 1832

When Tetoro was shown, in the "Dromedary," a double-barrelled fowling-piece, belonging to one of the officers, he "tabooed" it by tying a thread, pulled out of his cloak, round the guard of the trigger, and said that it must be his when he got to New Zealand, and that the owner should have thirty of his finest mats for it.

John Rutherford, the White Chief George Lillie Craik 1832

An officer belonging to the "Dromedary," who happened to have a coat of arms engraved on his seal, was frequently asked by the New Zealanders if the device was his "amoco."

John Rutherford, the White Chief George Lillie Craik 1832

Cruise asserts that the tattooing in New Zealand is renewed occasionally, as the lines become fainter by time, to the latest period of life; and that one of the chiefs who returned home in the "Dromedary" was re-tattooed soon after his arrival.

John Rutherford, the White Chief George Lillie Craik 1832

I remember the terms "Dromedary" and "Bactrian," for example, but that crucial bit of information about which camel has one hump and which has two just didn't stick.

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