Raibárí is the name given to a class of Hindus who are acquainted with the habits of the camel. They teach the country bred lok camel so to step as to pass over great distances in a short time. Although from the capital to the frontiers of the empire, into every direction, relay horses are stationed, and swift runners have been posted at the distance of every five kos, a few of these camel riders are kept at the palace in readiness. Each Raibárí is also put in charge of fifty stud arwánahs, to which for the purpose of breeding, one bughur and two loks are attached. The latter (the males) get the usual allowance of grain, but nothing for grass. The fifty arwánahs get no allowance for grain or grass. For every bughur, bughdí, and jam­mázah, in the stud, the allowance for oiling and injecting into the nostrils, is 4 s. of sesame oil, ¾ s. of brimstone, 6½ s. of butter milk. The first includes ¾ s. of oil for injection. Loks, arwánahs, g'hurds, and máyah g'hurds, only get 35/8 s. of sesame oil—the deduction is made for injection,—6½ s. of butter milk, and 5/8 s. of brimstone.

Botahs and Dumbálahs—these names are given to young camels; the former is used for light burdens—are allowed 2½ s. of oil, inclusive of ½ s. for injection into the nostrils, ½ s. of brimstone, and 4½ s. of butter-milk.

Full grown stud camels get weekly ½ s. of saltpetre and common salt; botahs get ¼ s.

The wages of a herdsman is 200 d. per mensem. For grazing every fifty stud camels, he is allowed five assistants, each of whom gets 2 d. per diem. A herdsman of two herds of fifty is obliged to present His Majesty three arwánahs every year; on failure, their price is deducted from his salary.

Formerly the state used to exact a fourth part of the wool sheared from every bughdí and jammázah, each camel being assessed to yield four sers of wool. This His Majesty has remitted, and in lieu thereof, has ordered the drivers to provide their camels with dum-afsárs, wooden pegs, &c.

The following are the prices of camels:—a bughdí, from 5 to 12 Muhurs; a jammázah, from 3 to 10 M.; a bughur, from 3 to 7 M.; a mongrel lok, from 8 to 9 M.; a country-bred, or a Balúchí lok, from 3 to 8 M.; an arwánah, from 2 to 4 M.

His Majesty has regulated the burdens to be carried by camels. A first class bughdí, not more than 10 mans; a second class do., 8 m.; superior jammázahs, loks, &c., 8 m.; second class do, 6 m.

In this country, camels do not live above twenty-four years.