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left off trading to the river, the Liverpool ships formerly 
taking off a small quantity. 
The domestic animals are sheep spotted black and white, 
with pensile ears and no horns, goats, hogs of a small breed, 
a few dogs resembling the shepherd’s dog, and cats. The 
black cattle brought by the Portuguese cannot be consi- 
dered as fully established, no care being taken of them, 
though, from their very fine appearance and their excellent 
meat, no part of the world seems more proper for their 
multiplication. Common fowls of a small breed, and 
Muscovy ducks are the only domestic poultry 
The wild animals of whose existence we have any cer- 
tainty, are elephants in small numbers, this hilly country 
being unfavourable to them. Buffaloes, which are said to 
be abundant. Antelopes, of which a few have been seen ; 
wild hogs, the skeleton of the head of one being found. 
Tigers and tiger cats, the skins being seen with the natives. 
Monkeys in abundance, (Simia sephus). The hippepo- 
tamus and alligator appear to be numerous. The only 
species of fish we have seen to be peculiar to the river is 
a kind of cat-fish, and some small ones resembling the 
bleak. 
Among the birds are the grey and other parrots, the 
toucan, the common royston crow, a great variety of king- 
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