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thirty miles in a day. They are managed by a small cord 

 passed through the gristle of the nose. Their flesh is 

 esteemed by Europeans as an article of foodo 



9. " An old writer describes the procession of an In- 

 dian prince, who was drawn by two white oxen, which 

 had the neck short, and a hump between the shoulders, 

 but which were as lively and active as horses. Bishop 

 Heber informs us that the horns of the white oxen which 

 drag the Rajpoot nobility are gilded. It is said that they 

 can travel fifty miles a day, and always on a trot. When 

 they have done half their day's work, they have for dinner 

 two or three balls of the size of a penny loaf, and made 

 of wheaten flour, kneaded with butter and coarse sugar ; 

 and, in the evening, their supper consists of chick-peas, 

 bruised and steeped for half an hour in water." 



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The Yak of Thibet. 



10. " The yak, or grunting cow, is distinguished from 

 the true oxen by its smaller stature, by the long hair that 



