_Camels in Gaul._--The use of camels by the Franks in Gaul is more than
once referred to by the chroniclers. In the year 585, the treasures of
Mummolus and the friends of Gondovald were carried from Bordeaux to
Convennes on camels. The troops of Gontran who were pursuing them--
"invenerunt _camelos_ cum ingenti pondere auri atque argenti, sive
equos quos fessos per vias reliquerat"--_Greg. Turon._, l. vii. c. 35.
And after Brunichild had fallen into the hands of Chlotair, she was, before
her death, conducted through the army on a camel:--
"Jubetque eam _camelum_ per omnem exercitum sedentem
perducere."--_Fredegarius_, c. 42.
By what people were camels first brought into Gaul? By the Romans; by the
Visigoths; or by the Franks themselves?