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left off trading to the river, the Liverpool ships formerly 

 taking off a small quantity. 



The domestic animals are sheep spotted black and white, 

 with pensile ears and no horns, goats, hogs of a small breed, 

 a few dogs resembUng the shepherd's dog, and cats. The 

 black cattle brought by the Portuguese cannot be consi- 

 dered as fully estabhshed, no care being taken of them, 

 though, from their very fine appearance and their excellent 

 meat, no part of the world seems more proper for their 

 multiplication. Common fowls of a small breed, and 

 Muscovy ducks are the only domestic poultry 



The wild animals of whose existence we have any cer- 

 tainty, are elephants in small numbers, this hilly country 

 being unfavourable to them. Buffaloes, which are said to 

 be abundant. Antelopes, of which a few have been seen ; 

 wild hogs, the skeleton of the head of one being found. 

 Tigers and tiger cats, the skins being seen with the natives. 

 Monkeys in abundance, (Simia sephus). The hippopo- 

 tamus and alligator appear to be numerous. The only 

 species of fish we have seen to be peculiar to the river is 

 a kind of cat-fish, and some small ones resembling the 

 bleak. 



Among the birds are the grey and other parrots, the 

 toucan, the common royston crow, a great variety of king- 



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