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also by the natives of eastern Africa, as beasts of draught and 

 burden, and are sometimes ridden. Mr. Youatt informs us, that 

 Lieutenant- Colonel Skinner, residing near Pokar, on the borders 

 of the Bichaneer desert, has a large stock of the Nagore breed, 

 which in strength and speed far surpasses our oxen. " He 

 employs them to convey the military dispatches, and either 

 of them will travel with a soldier on its back fifteen or sixteen 

 hours a day, at the rate of six miles an hour. Their action is 

 particularly fine, and they bring their hind-legs under them in 

 as straight a line as the horse. Mr. Perkins has a zebu calf 

 which has leaped over an iron fence higher than any five- 

 barred gate ; and his zebu bull frequently jumps over the same 

 fence in order to get water j and when he has drunk his fill, he 

 leaps back again." 



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The great variety in the dimensions of different breeds of the 

 zebu cattle, is exemplified by the several specimens in the 

 possession of the Zoological Society. This variety in stature 

 ranges from that of the great Brahmin breed to one so small 

 as scarcely to exceed two feet in height, and little more than 



