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over fea from Arabia, where the Arabians 

 fometimes efleem them above their wives and 

 children I have been told, that fometimes 

 they pay as much for the genealogy of a 

 horfe as for the horfe itfelf. 



We did not fee many camels. The goats 

 are of that kind which have pendent ears. 

 The oxen have a hump on the back like thofe 

 at Madagafcar, Joanna, and as far as the 

 Straits of Malacca. The fheep have bent 

 fnouts and pendent ears, their wool is more 

 coarfe and ftiff than the goats hair, which 

 plainly convinced me that a warm climate does 

 not always produce fine and foft wool. High- 

 er up in the country Gazells are to be met 

 with : you muft already have feen, Sir, that 

 their horns have rings all the way, and are 

 .fcrew-fhaped, by the offenfive and defeniive 

 arms which I bought of a Pat an, and which 

 M. Lagerjlrom undoubtedly hath fent you 

 before this time. ' 



Some Germans call the turkeys p Calcutta 

 hens ; for this reafon I looked about for them 

 ,jhere, and only found them in one place, and 



p Turkies are altogether American. 



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