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and white. At a distance a herd looks very much like a 

 drove of English cattle. Once on coming out of a thick 

 jungle into the open ground, I found myself in the midsr 

 of a hundred of them, and they appeared so tame, that my 

 first impression was they were domestic cows ; but they 

 soon bounded away like deer, and dissolved the. illusion 

 Mr. Blyth writes me that it is 

 Bos sandaicus. 



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ZEBU OX. 



The zebu, or Indian ox, with the large hump on its 

 shoulders, appears to have been the most usually domesti- 

 cated ox before the English took possession ol the Pro- 

 vinces. 



Bos indicus. 



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ENGLISH OX. 



Europeans have introduced the English breed of oxen 

 into the Provinces 

 Bos taurus. 



SHAN OX. 



A small ox from the Shan country is brought down some 

 times in great numbers, which resembles in its form, the 

 English rather than the Indian ox, but is probably de- 

 rived from the wild race. Occasionally a young wild ox 

 in the Provinces is domesticated, and brought under the 

 yoke. 



Bos sondaicus 1 



BUFFALO. 



There are great numbers of wild buffaloes in the jun- 

 gles, which are supposed by the natives to be indigenous; 

 but they are more probably of the domestic race that have 

 run wild, like the wild horses of America. 



There is perhaps no domesticated animal in the world, 

 concerning which learned men, in Europe and America. 

 are sc profoundly ignorant, as the buffalo From rai-ru> 



