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Coail, Judda and Guinea, are as worthlefs and contempt- 

 ible as the Indian race. They carry their necks and 

 heads fo low, that they alraoft touch the ground ; and 

 are fo weak and tottering in their paces, that they feeni 

 as if they would fall every moment, and fo fluggifh, that 

 without beating they will not ftir at all, and with this 

 very Hubborn and indocile: fo that they are fit for no. 

 thing but to ferve for Food for the negroes, who relifh 

 mightily the flavour of their flefh, and have this tafte 

 in common with Arabs, T'artars, and Ch'mefe. 



The people of this day, according to an elegant, ac- 

 curate, and judicious writer *, feed their horfes in the 

 rice fields, and when flefh is plenty, they boil the ofFal 

 to rags, and mixing it with butter, and fome forts of 

 grain, make balls, which they thruft down the horfes 

 throats. In afcarcity of provifion they give \h.^m.Op'mm, 

 which has the fame effect both on horfes and men, 

 for at once it damps their appetites, and enables them to 

 endure fatigue. The horfes of the country are natu- 

 rally fo exceedingly vicious, that they are not to be 

 broken and tamed, and cannot be brought to a(5l in 

 the field, with the fame regularity as a fquadron of 

 European cavalry. The Perfian horfes being more 

 gentle and tra<51:able, are often valued at a thoufand 

 guineas each, while thofe of India fell for fifty or one 

 hundred. 



* Cambridge's introdudion to his Account of the War in India. 



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