THE BUFFALO, &c. 175 



In Barbary *, and moft parts of Africa, where 

 the lands are dry, and the pafture poor, the 

 oxen are ftill fmaller, the cows give much lefs 

 milk than ours, and moft of them lofe their 

 milk with their calves. The fame remark ap- 

 plies to fome parts of Perfia t> of Lower ^Ethi- 

 opia % , and of Great Tartary || ; while, in the 

 fame countries,and at no great diftances, as in Cai- 

 rn uck 



* In the kingdom of Tunis and Algiers, the oxen and cows, 

 generally fpeaking, are not fo large as thofe of England. 

 After being well fattened, the larger! of them feldom weigh 

 above five or fix hundred pounds. The cows give very little 

 milk, and it commonly dries up when their calves are taken 



from them ; Skatvs Travels Boves domeftici, quotquot 



in Africae montibus nalcuntur, adeo funt exigui, ut aliis 

 collati, vituli biennes appareant, monticolae tamen illos aratro 

 exercentes turn robuftos, turn laboris paticntes alferunt ; Leon. 



Afric. Africae Defcript. tarn. 2. pag. 753. The cows ofGui- 



ney are dry and meager. . . . Their milk is fo poor and 

 fcanty, that twenty or thirty of them are hardly fufficient to 

 ierve the General's table. Thefe cows are very fmall and 

 light ; one of the belt of them, when full grown, weighs not 

 above two hundred and fifty pounds, though, in proportion 

 to its fize, it ought to weigh one half more ; Voyage de Baf??ia*? t 

 p. 236. 



f The people of Caramania, at a little diftance from the 

 Perfic gulph, have fome goats and cows ; but their horned 

 cattle are not ftronger than calves, or Spanilh bulls of a year 

 old ; and their hcyns exceed not a foot in length ; A??ibajfads 

 de Si ha Figueroa, p. 62. 



X In the province of Guber in ./Ethiopia, a number of large 

 and fmall cattle are. reared ; but their cows are not larger 

 than our heifers 5 U Afrique de Manual, iom. 3. p. 66. 



|] At Krafnojarfk, the Tartars have a number of cattle ; 

 but a Ruffian cow gives twenty times as much milk as one of 

 theirs ; Voyage du Gnielin a Kamtfchqlka, 



