108 WHITE FOREST BREED. 



and tame in the remanent figure of thair bodyis, thay 

 wer mair wild than ony uthir beistis, and had sic 

 hatrent aganis the societe and cumpany of men that 

 thay come nevir in the wodis, nor lesuris quhair thay 

 fand ony feit or haind thairof, any mony dayis eftir, 

 they eit nocht of the herbis that wer twichit or hand- 

 illit be men. Thir bullis wer sa wild, that thay wer 

 nevir tane but slight and crafty laubour, and sa im- 

 pacient that eftir thair taking they deit for importa- 

 ble doloure. Alse sone as ony man invadit thir bullis, 

 they ruschit with so terrible preis on him, that they 

 dang him to the eird, takand na feir of houndis, 

 scharp lancis, nor uthir maist penetrive wapinnis." 

 " And thoucht thir bullis were bred in sindry bouudis 

 of the Calidon wod, now, be continwal hunting and 

 lust of insolent men, thay are distroyit in all partis of 

 Scotland, and nane of thaim left bot allanerlie in 

 Cumarnauld." 12 In a remarkable document, written 

 about 1570, the writer complains of the aggressions 

 of the king's party in the destruction of the deer in 

 the forest of Cumbernauld, " and the quhit ky and 

 bullis of the said forest, to the gryt destructione of 

 policie and hinder of the commonweill. For that 

 kynd of ky and bullis he bein kepit thir money zeiris 

 in the said forest, and the like was not mantenit in 

 ony vther partis of the He of Albion." 13 In 1598, 

 John Leslie, Bishop of Ross, speaks of the wild ox 

 occurring in the woods of Scotland, of a white color, 



12 Hector Roscoe, born In 1470. Hist. Scotorum, pub. at Paris, 1526, ed. of 

 1574, fol. 6, line 63, occurs the passage quoted in An. & Mag. of Nat. Hist. 1839, 

 ii, 281, and Low's Animals, 234. 



13 Illustrations of Scottish History, preserved from manuscripts by Sir John 

 Graham Dalyell, Bart., quoted in Low's Animals, p. 235. 



