led and 1000 prisoners,
besides arms and baggage. On the 3rd of December Gates was superseded by
Gen. Nathanael Greene, who after Cornwallis had left the Carolinas,
advanced on Camden and arrived in the neighbourhood on the 19th of April
1781. Considering his force (about 1450) insufficient for an attack on
the fortifications, he withdrew a short distance north of Camden to an
advantageous position on Hobkirk's Hill, where on the 25th of April
Rawdon, with a force of only 950, took him somewhat by surprise and
drove him from the field. The casualties on each side were nearly equal:
American 271; British 258. On the 8th of May Rawdon evacuated the town,
after burning most of it. On the 24th of February 1865, during the Civil
War, a part of Gen. W.T. Sherman's army entered Camden and burned
stores of tobacco and cotton, and several buildings. (See AMERICAN WAR
OF INDEPENDENCE.)

See also T.J. Kirkland and R.M. Kennedy, _Historic Camden_ (Columbia,
S.C., 1905).

CAMEL (from the Arabic _Djemal_ or the Heb. _Gamal_), the name of the
single-humped Arabian _Camelus dromedarius_, but also applied to the
two-humped central Asian _C. bactrianus_ and to the extinct relatives of
both. The characteristics of camels and their systematic position are
discussed under the headings TYLOPODA and ARTIODACTYLA. The two living
species are distinguishable at a glance. It may be mentioned that the
Bactrian camel, which is a shorter-legged and more ponderous animal than
the Arabian species, grows an enormously long and thick winter coat,
which is shed in blanket-like masses in spring. The Arabian camel, which
is used not only in the country from which it takes its name, but also
in North Africa and India, and has been introduced into Australia and
North America, is known only as a domesticated animal. On the other
hand, the Bactrian species, which is employed throughout a large tract
of central Asia in the domesticated condition, appears, according to
recent researches, to exist in the wild state in some of the central
Asian deserts. From the examination of specimens collected by Dr Sven
Hedin, Professor W. Leche shows that the wild Bactrian camel differs
from the domesticated breed of central Asia in the following external
characters: the humps are smaller; the long hair does not occupy nearly
so much of the body; the colour is much more rufous; and the ears and
muzzle are shorter. Many important differences are also recorded betwee