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when j^drmral Ca-vendipj, a few Years ago, acquainted Him, 

 that He had a Hampflnre Cow aboard the Canterbury^ (then 

 in the Road o^ Algiers,) which gave a Gallon of iVlilk aDay : 

 a Quantity equal to what half a dozen of the belt Barharj Cows 

 would yield in the fame Time. The Barhary Cattle likewife 

 have another Imperfeftion, that they always lofe their Calves 

 and their Milk together. 



The Sheep and the Goats contribute alfo to the Dairies of ^-^ '^^''^ 

 this Country; it being chiefly of their IVlilk, that the Moors 

 and yirahs make Cheefe. Inltead of Runnet, they make ufe, 

 (in the Summer Seafon particularly,) of the Flowers of the great 

 headed Thiftle or wild Artichoak, to turn the Milk; putting 

 the Curds, thus made, into fmall Baskets of Rufhes or Prf/?//e'/<?, 

 and binding them afterwards and prefling them. I have rarely Kw^^cheefe, 

 feen any of thefe Cheefes above two or three Pound Weight, 

 being ufually of the Shape and Size of a Penny Loaf; fuch 

 perhaps , as we may fuppofe thofe ten to have been, which 

 Damd' carried, with other Provifions, to the Camp of Saul. 

 They have no other Method of making Butter than by putting <j;;i Butter, 

 their Milk or Cream into a Goat's Skin ; which, being fufpend- 

 ed from one Side of the Tent to the other and prefixed to and 

 fro in one uniform Diredlion, quickly occafioneth that Separa- 

 tion which is required of the unftuous and whayie Parts. 



The Goat is the fame with that of other Countries; hutrhe broad- 

 They have two Sorts of Sheep, which are not known in Em- '"''"^ ^*''^' 

 rope. One of them, which is common all over the Levant, 

 as well as the Kingdom of Tunis, is noted for a broad Tail, 

 which endeth in fome of Them in a Point, but, in others, 

 continueth broad quite down to the Bottom. The Mutton of 

 this Species tafteth generally of the Wool : neither hath It the 

 tender Fibres of the fmaller tailed Sheep: yet the Tail itfelf is 

 greatly efteemed in their Cufcajowes and Tilloes, conlifting 

 of a hard folid Fat, not inferiour in Tafte to Marrow. T^hQ m sheep of 

 other Species, which is bred in the Neighbourhood oiGaddem&^ ^^' ^^''^"' 

 Wurglah, and other Places of the Sahara, is near as tall as our 

 Fallow Deer ; and, excepting the Head, not much different in 

 Shape. The Heat of the Climate, the Scarcity of Water, 

 with the Coarfnefs of the Herbs they feed upon, may be the 

 Occalion perhaps, why their Flelh is dry to the Palate, and 

 their Fleeces are as coarfe and hairy as the Goats. 



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