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become such a dwarted breed, there is no doubt that the 

 domestic goat of Negro Africa is a descendant ot the Persian 

 wild stock which hrst reached Egypt trom Syria at a period 

 of great antiquity. The Egyptians on their own account 

 appear to have domesticated the Nubian ibex [Capra niibiana) 



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as well as the audad sheep. But these forms, Hke the ibex 

 {Capra waalii) of the high mountains of Abyssinia, have left 

 no domesticated descendants. The ancestor therefore of the 

 Negro's goat, as in the case of all his domestic beasts and birds, 

 is an Asiatic animal. No doubt it was the first breed ot true 

 goat received by the Ancient Egyptians, who passed it on to 



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