THE OX. 



Hunting Wild Cattle on the Pampas. 



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Common Domestic Cows. 



The Zebu. 



The Ox was one of the first of domestic animals 

 carried over to America hy the early Spanish settlers. 

 There it has multiplied and spread, and, indeed, in some 

 degree recovered its original independence. Herds of 

 wild Oxen roam the pampas or plains of South America, 

 where they are hunted and slain for their hides. 



The Cape Buffalo is found nowhere but in Southern 

 Africa. Its general aspect is shaggy and formidable. 

 It has never been tamed, and the males are dangerous 

 to come near. Its temper is depicted in its lowering 

 eye, and the molevolent expression of the countenance, 

 to which the position of the overshadowing its liery 

 eyes not a little contributes. 



The Zebu, is spread over the whole of Southern 

 Asia and the Eastern coast, India, and different parts 

 of Africa. In size it varies from that of a large Dog 

 to that of an Ox, the wild being larger than the tame. 

 They are particulary remarkable for a fatty hump be- 

 tween the shoulders, which in some, weighs about 

 fifty pounds. In Africa, the larger kind supplies the 

 place of the Ox, both for labor and food ; in some places 

 of India it is rendered serviceable, as a saddle-horse. 



Yorkshire Cow. 



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