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

 domestic goat of Negro Africa is a descendant of the Persian 

 wild stock which first reached Egypt from Syria at a period 

 of great antiquity. The Egyptians on their own account 

 appear to have domesticated the Nubian ibex {Capra nubiana) 



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

 {Capra ivaalii) 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 of true 

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



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