Thirty milch camels with their colts,.... Milch camels were in great esteem in the eastern countries; their milk being, as Aristotle y and Pliny z say, the sweetest of all milk:
forty kine and ten bulls; one bull to ten cows; the same proportion as in the goats and rams:
twenty she asses and ten foals; and supposing thirty colts belonging to the camels; the present consisted of five hundred and eighty head of cattle: a large number to spare out of his flocks and herds, that he had acquired in six years' time; and showed a generous disposition as well as prudence, to part with so much in order to secure the rest.
y Hist. Animal. l. 6. c. 26. z Nat. Hist. l. 11. c. 41. & 28. 9.