Essay on Sheep, 37 



Omnia secum 

 Armenta.ius Afer agit, tectumque, laremque, 

 Armaque, Amyclaeumque eanem, Cressamque pharetram. , 



This is comprised in a very short catalogue. 

 The skins of sheep that serve for their beds, a 

 kettle, a leather bottle, a knapsack, a spoon, a 

 lancet to bleed their sheep, a scissors, a hatchet, 

 a knife, and bread and oil or suet, on vi^hich they 

 subsist, and a few drugs for their sheep. These, 

 with the skins of those sheep that die in the 

 passage, are carried by a few beasts of burthen 

 which accompany the flock. To facilitate the 

 march, a number of wethers of the largest size, 

 which they call Mansos, are rendered very tame. 

 These carry bells, and are taught to obey the sig- 

 nals of the shepherds, and either march or stop 

 as they direct. The rest of the flocks follow their 

 leaders. As soon as they arrive at their winter 

 quarters, the shepherd*s first care is to form the 

 pens in which they are gathered at night to 

 protect them from the wolves, who always mi- 

 grate with the sheep, in order to pick up the 

 sick, the weak, or the stragglers. These folds 

 are made of genista hispanica, which is a 

 soft rushy shrub: mats, baskets and ropes arc 

 made of it. The meshes of these net enclo- 

 sures are a foot wide. The dogs, which are 

 of ' a large breed, serve to guard this fold at 



