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of the veterans of its own kind, from whom it 

 learns its art, becomes social and diligent, and is 

 taken for life into human friendship and protec- 

 tion. 



The bisons, or cows with a hump, are found to 

 differ very much from each other, in the several 

 parts of the world where they are found. The 

 wild ones of this kind, as with us, are much larger 

 than the tame. Some have horns, and some are 

 without any ; some have them depressed, and 

 some raised in such a manner that they are used 

 as weapons of annoyance or defence ; some are 

 extremely large ; and others among them, such 

 as the Zebu, or Barbary cow, are very small. 

 They are all, however, equally docile and gentle 

 when tamed ; and, in general, furnished with a 

 fine lustrous soft hair, more beautiful than that of 

 our own breed : their hump is also of different 

 sizes, in some weighing from forty to fifty pounds, 

 in others less ; it is not, however, to be consider- 

 ed as a part necessarily belonging to the animal, 

 and probably it might be cut away without much 

 injury: it resembles a gristly fat, and, as I am 

 assured, cuts and tastes somewhat like a dressed 

 udder. The bisons of Malabar, Abyssinia, and 

 Madagascar, are of the great kind, as the pastures 

 there are plentiful. Those of Arabia Petrsea, 

 and most parts of Africa, are small, and of the 

 zebu or little kind. In America, especially to- 

 wards the north, the bison is well known. The 

 American bison, however, is found to be rather 

 less than that of the ancient continent ; its hair is 

 longer and thicker, its beard more remarkable, 



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