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Brahmin Bull, Fig. 75, is a native of India, and is remark- 

 able for a large fatty hump above the shoulders. In all 



Fig. 75 Zebu, or Brahmin Bull. 



Southern Asia and Eastern Africa this animal supplies 

 the place of the common Ox, and is supposed to have 

 come from the same origin, instead of being another spe- 

 cies. The Hindoos treat it with great reverence and at- 

 tention. They allow it to go about the streets, which it 

 does with great familiarity, even walking into shops, 

 helping itself to sweetmeats and other articles, and re- 

 senting the slightest aifronts with a peevish thrust of the 

 horns. But while the bull is thus honored, the ox is 

 treated without mercy, being urgeu on in its labor by 

 the cruel goad. The Brahmin cow is treated more kind- 

 ly than the ox, but is not reverenced as the bull is. 



158. The true Buffaloes belong to a genus of this fam- 

 ily. They are found in Asia and Africa, and to some lit- 

 tle extent in the south of Europe. The common species, 

 Fig. 76 (p. 92), was originally a native of India, where it 

 has long been domesticated, and used like the Ox. Its 

 hide is very strong, and harness is made from it. 



159. The American Bison, Fig. 77 (p. 92), improperly 

 called a Buffalo, is found in immense herds in the prairies 



