Extract from Mr, Livingstones Essay on Sheep. 259 



still more valuable among" savages^ plenty of grease for his 

 toilet and his kitchen. This circumstance alone would make 

 him attentive to cherish and propagate the deformity ; and 

 the rather as he must soon have found that it was attended 

 with another important advantage ; the sheep being more 

 unwieldy^ would be less apt to stray or return to its savage 

 state ; an object of considerable importance in the early state 

 of society. 



