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consequence of the poor fellow's bullocks 

 having ran off with their loads, I could not 

 prevail on him to stay to have any thing 

 done to his wounds, and I know not what 

 became of him.] If any living animal inter- 

 cepts them in their path, they bite at it. At 

 this period, they are both strong and active, 

 with lively inflamed eyes, and have more 

 than a natural secretion of saliva. Their 

 strength, however, soon begins to fail, and 

 their breathing from being quick, becomes 

 laborious, with their tongues hanging a little 

 out; and as their disorder advances, drop- 

 ping lower, and at last becoming of a dark 

 colour^ while the foam issues from their 

 mouths ; at that period, they appear to drag 

 rather than lift their hind legs. 



Almost the whole of the hair on their 

 backs and necks stands erect, and their eyes 

 are bloodshot, emitting a purulent discharge. 

 The fatal crisis then soon follows, and ac- 

 cording to my observations, they generally 

 die on the third day from the time the irrita- 



