Twa Camels in Edinburgh:
In January 1659 a dromedary camel was brought to the Canongate in Edinburgh. Crowds paid 3 pence a head to see the “heich great beast callit ane Drummodary”. Probably the 1st camel in Scotland outside royal menageries of old.
Charles I had a camel his menagerie in Edinburgh in 1633. John Grahame got it on a 6 month lease “to carie said camel throughout the Kingdome an show the people by towcke of drum or sound of trumpet” but not “upon the Sabboth day”.
