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gnaw bonés in mere playfulness: but his carnivorous taste was not 
suspected, till the remains of a piece of roast-beef set to cool in 
the pantry-window was carried away. Nobody imputed the theft 
to the colt ; and the housekeeper, determined to convict the pil- 
ferer, watched while another bit of meat was left in the same spot 
from whence the beef was taken. She soon saw the colt stretch 
his fore feet up, till they rested on the outside of the window, 
take out the fragment, and gallop to a wood at some distance. 
She afterwards offered him slices of beef, mutton, veal, or lamb, 
which he accepted like a dog: he did not like pork, but all kinde 
of fowl or game were highly agreeable to him. 
To confirm this statement by parallel evidence, permit me to 
remind your readers, that in different parts of India the horses in 
an encampment are served with boiled sheep’s heads, as a mess 
more nutritive than grain, when they have anv extraordinary fa- 
tigue to undergo. May not the whole account admit of practical 
application? When grain and fodder are scarce, the worst cattle 
might be killed, and boiled into strong soup, cutting the flesh 
small, among straw, hay, or other vegetable provender? During 
scarcity the cattle of Iceland go to the shores, and feed on fish, | 
INTERIOR OF AFRICA. . 
Advices have been received of Major Gray’s having succeeded 
in penetrating into the interior of Africa to a considerable di- 
stance. When parted with, the gentleman, a French naval officer, 
who brought these advices, says, he had advanced 300 leagues. 
Major Gray left the River Gambia in the month of April 1818. - 
On the following Ist of November he was at Bondou, a Negro 
country, situated near the river Senegal, where he was detained, 
by the evil disposition of the inhabitants and from the want of 
trading articles, till the 15th of the same month, when he pro- 
ceeded with his expedition to the village of Bakel in the Serra- 
colet country. He there put himself under the protection of the 
French Government brig Argus, which vessel was to stop a year 
in that country. At this period Major Gray received no news for 
a whole month from the Surgeon-major of the expedition, whom 
he had sent to Sego to solicit the protection of the king of Bam- 
barras. Mr. Adrian Partarieux, a man‘of colour, and interpreter 
to Major Gray, who had gone to St. Louis, Senegal, for trading 
articles, left it the beginning of last month to join the expedition. 
On the 18th of Nov. last Major Gray was in very good health, 
though he had unfortunately lost the greater part of his white 
men, and all the animals of burden; but he had not abandoned 
all hopes of succeeding in his mission, 
The subdjoined paragraphs are from a private letter dated St. 
Louis (Senegal) Jan.1Jth, received by a gentleman at Caen, and 
published in a Paris journal, “A 
