72 REMARKS AND OPINIONS. 



this fertile soil, and among which we will only 

 mention the highly-extolled mango*, two sorts of 

 bread-fruit trees, the common one of the South Sea 

 islands, and that peculiar to the PhilijDpines, the 

 plantain and the cocoa. 



The domestic animals originally in this archi- 

 pelago, were the hog, the goat, the dog, the cat ; 

 fowls, the goose, and according to Zuuiga, also the 

 Caraboa or East Indian buffalo f, which must be 

 distinguished from that of the south of Europe, and 

 for which we refer to Marsden's account, t The 

 Caraboa is found in the mountains, either in a savage 

 state or run wild. The Spaniards first introduced 

 our kinds of oxen, the horse, and sheep. 



The cock-fight, already mentioned by Pigafetta, 

 is the greatest diversion of the Indians. A good 

 fighting-cock is the pride and delight of his master, 

 who carries him about everywhere in his arms. 



* Zuniga doubts whether the mango was oi-igmally native, or 

 whether the Spaniards brought it from the coast of the con- 

 tinent. The same writer most unaccountably reckons the 

 sugar-cane among the plants brought here by the Spaniards. 

 Pigafetta expressly mentions the sugar-cane in Zebu. Don 

 San Jago de Echaparre has tried in vain to naturalize the 

 walnut and chesnut-tree. He sowed both kinds, but without 

 effect, several times on mountains of the interior, and on the 

 skirts of the forests. 



t Pigafetta does not seem to have mot with the caraboa, in 

 the islands of this archipelago, which he visited. He mentions 

 only the buffalo in Borneo, with the elephant and horse. The 

 word Caraboa, Karbare, is Malayan. 



\ Marsden's Sumatra, p. 94-. the first edition. 



