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apparently brought from the Sandwich Islands to Tahiti. 

 The white settlers have introduced cattle, horses, goats, 

 sheep, rabbits, and cats, all of which seem to thrive 

 well. The horses are as yet few in number, and they 

 are not much valued, as most inhabited places can be 

 reached by water, and there are as yet no roads in the 

 large islands. The terror of the natives at first seeing 

 a horse and a man on its back seems to have been quite 

 equal to that recorded of the ancient American nations ; 

 they ran away in wild dismay, or climbed trees and rocks 

 to get out of the reach of the monster. Cattle succeed 

 well ; and I saw some very fine young bullocks on Ka- 

 davu, the property of Mr. Boyce. Fijians not fencing in 

 their plantations, they have rather a dislike to cattle, 

 and in some instances they have killed them, as their 

 crops have frequently suffered from their devastation. 

 They are very fond of beef, and as there was no native 

 name for it, they have compounded one, calling it 

 " Bulla-ma-kau," because it is derived from a bull and a 

 cow. Goats have become very numerous, and most of 

 the white settlers have flocks of them for the sake of 

 their milk ; but I am not aware that any of the natives 

 have as yet reared any. Sheep were first introduced, 

 if I am rightly informed, by Dr. Brower, the present 

 American Consul, and several extensive sheep-runs have 

 lately been bought on the northern shores of Viti Levu 

 and Vanua Levu by British subjects from Australia. It 

 was formerly supposed that the climate of Fiji was too 

 warm for sheep, but that does not seem to be the case. 

 Some specimens of Fijian wool were sent to the London 

 Exhibition of 1862. "We find sheep answer well," 



