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and we suppose they are the wild bulls depicted on Assyrian 
monuments (Fig. 32, p. 272; notice the projecting horns). The 
Assyrians also used to capture the calves of these wild cattle, 
and bring them alive to their royal abodes. The cattle that 
would be taken out of Assyria by any wave of emigration 
would, no doubt, have some of the blood and characteristics 
of this wild race in them, and from this source, perhaps, their 
blood has entered into some of the domesticated breeds of Europe. 
Allusion has been made to the probability of the Scotch 
Unicorn having been an Antelope. Still we have no proof to 
support such a statement; but apparently we once had humped 
cattle in Britain, which might be regarded as equally strange 
and improbable. Ellon, in his Origins of English History (1890), 
writes :—“ According to the authors of the earliest Triads 
[Welsh bards], the swarms of wild bees in the woods gave its 
first name to the ‘Isle of Honey’; and the first settlers were 
supposed to marvel at the bears and wolves, the humped cattle 
of the forest, and the colonies of beavers in the streams.” Were 
these humped forest cattle white or black? In Egypt, and, we 
think, in Rome and Greece, the Indian or humped ox was used 
for sacrifice, and was white, but they were not emblematic of 
any deity. Such cattle were domesticated, we believe, but the 
wild or feral specimens may have been black. At any rate, 
a writer in the Jowrnal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for 1840 
states that:—‘“In the districts of Akbarpoor and Dostpoor, 

1T. A. Wise, in his History of Paganism in Caledonia, writes as 
follows :—‘‘ White bulls were held in especial honour among the Celts, 
who used to sacrifice them to the moon; and so sacred was this animal 
regarded among them, that to swear by the image of it was accepted as an 
oath taken before the Gods. An oath of this kind was once (101 B.C.) 
given by the Cimbri to the Romansand accepted asa pledge that the terms 
of the treaty made when they capitulated would be religiously respected. 
Bulls of a decidedly Hindu character are met with on the stones of 
Scotland. There is one on the large Meigle Cross, which has the 
characteristic hump on the shoulder.” é 
A reference to Fig. 20, p., 249, will show that in the relief termed 
‘* The Apotheosis of Homer,” the sacrificial animal there is also humped. 
Wise further writes—‘‘ Some of the sculptured stones of Pictavia supply 
us with interesting archeological details, such as priests in their robes, 
with books, or in processions with sacred oxen, or oxen about to be 
sacrificed.” 
