i82 THE BUFFALO, &c. 



vellers, that they have feen horns which could 

 contain fifteen and even twenty pints of water. 

 Throughout all Africa *, the large cattle are 

 never caftrated ; and this operation is not much 

 pracliied in India f . When the bulls are caftra- 

 ted, the tefticles are not cut off, but compreifed. 

 Though the Indians keep a great number of 

 ihefe animals for drawing their carriages and 

 plowing the ground, they do not rear fo many 

 as we do. As, in all warm countries, the cows 

 give little milk, as the natives are unacquainted 

 with butter or cheefe, and, as the flefh of the 

 calves is not fo good as in Europe, the inhabitants 

 do not greatly multiply horned cattle. Befides, 

 in all the fouthern provinces of Africa and 

 Aiia, being more thinly peopled than thofe of 

 Europe, there are a number of wild oxen, 

 which are taken when young. They tame 

 ipontaneoufly, and fiibmit, without refinance, to 

 all kinds of dpmeftic labour. They become fo 

 tractable, that they are managed with as mucheafe 

 as horfes : The voice of their matter is fufficient 

 to direct: their courfe, and to make them obey. 

 They are iho-.l J, curried, carefled, and fup- 



plied 



* Along the coal! of Guiney, we fee bulls and cows only ; 

 for the Negroes underftand not the pra&ice of caflration ; 

 Voyage de Brfmai:, />. 230. 



■\ When the Indians caftrate their pulls i? is not by in- 

 cllum, but by the cpmpreffion of ligatures, which prevents the 

 urjfhment of the parts ; Groje's travels^ />• 253. 



As the road-, in the province of Afmer are very ftony, 

 • {hod before they f:t out on long journeys. 



They 



