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another, as the wilde Moores of Barbarie called Alarbes 

 doe, following the seasons and the pasture after their 

 Oxen. 

 The descrip- These Oxen are of the bignesse and colour of our 

 T/Jtira''' Bulks, but their homes are not so great. They have a 

 great bunch upon their fore shoulders, and more haire 

 on their fore part then on their hinder part : and it is 

 like wooll. They have as it were an horse-mane upon 

 their backe bone, and much haire and very long from 

 the knees downeward. They have great tuffes of haire 

 hanging downe their foreheads, and it seemeth that 

 they have beardes, because of the great store of haire 

 hanging downe at their chinnes and throates. The 

 males have very long tailes, and a great knobbe or 

 flocke at the end : so that in some respect they re- 

 semble the Lion, and in some other the Camell. They 

 push with their homes, they runne, they overtake and 

 kill an horse when they are in their rage and anger. 

 Finally, it is a foule and fierce beast of countenance 

 and forme of bodie. The horses fledde from them, 

 either because of their deformed shape, or else because 

 thev had never scene them. Their masters have no 

 other riches nor substance : of them they eat, they 

 drinke, they apparel, they shooe themselves : and of 

 their hides they make many things, as houses, shooes, 

 apparell and ropes : of their bones they make bodkins : 

 of their sinewes and haire, threed : of their homes, 

 mawes, and bladders, vessels : of their dung, fire : and of 

 their calves-skinnes, budgets, wherein they drawe and 

 keepe water. To bee short, they make so many things 

 of them as they have neede of, or as many as suffice them 

 in the use of this life. 

 Sheepe as big There are also in this countrey other beastes as big 

 as orses. ^^ horses, which because they have homes and fine wool, 

 they cal them sheepe, and they say that every home of 

 ..... , theirs weigheth is fiftie pound weis^ht. 

 earning 50. There are also great dogs which will fight with a bull, 

 pound weight, and will Carrie fiftie pound weight in sackes when they 



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