1847.] On the tame Sheep, fyc. of Tibet. 1013 



The feet, groin and eye pits are all conspicuous in the Bar wal. In- 

 testines 121 feet ; whereof the small are 94, and the great 27 feet. 

 Coecum 12^ inches long, and 3|- wide. Several inches of the gut below 

 it, nearly as wide. Rest 2\ to 2 inches in diameter down to anal end. 

 Liver with two principal and five total divisions besides the lobulus and 

 the large gall-bladder loosely attached to the largest lobe in a very 

 partial cleft and at its lower edge. 



4. Oms Cdgia. — The Cago or Cagya. This is the especial breed of 

 the central region of the sub- Himalayas, so far as that region can be 

 said to have a breed, for, in sooth, its very rank pasture and high tem- 

 perature together are very inimical to Ovine animals. There are few 

 sheep in the central hilly region, and none in the lower, till you reach 

 the open plain, and there is found a widely diffused breed, quite different 

 in its superficial characters from any of the hill ones. What sheep 

 are reared in the central region of the hills are of the Cagia breed, but 

 rather by householders than by shepherds, and rather for their flesh 

 than for their wool. The Cagia is a complete Barwal in miniature : 

 yet, like as the two breeds are, each has its own region, nor does the 

 great difference of size ever vary or disappear. Nor are there wanting 

 other differential marks such as the full sized pointed and pendant ears 

 of the Cagia and its shorter stapled and finer wool. 



Length from snout to vent 3 to 3^ feet. Height 2 to 2} feet. Head 

 to occiput by the curve, 13 inches, straight 10 to 11 inches. Tail onty, 

 6^ to 7 inches. Tail and wool, 7\ to 8 inches. Ear \\ to 4£ inches. 

 Girth behind the shoulder 2\ to 2f feet. 



The Cagia is a small, stout and compact breed, possessed of great 

 strength and soundness of constitution, impatient only of heat, and that 

 much less so than the preceding breeds, eminently docile and tractable, 

 affording mutton of unequalled quality, and wool not to be despised, yet 

 to be praised with more qualification than the meat. Men of rank in 

 Nepaul, who eat mutton, always prefer that of the Cagia, which is cer- 

 tainly superior both for tenderness and flavour to the mutton of any 

 other breed of sheep in these regions. The wool is of short staple but 

 considerable fineness, though inferior much to that of Silingia, some- 

 what to that of the Hunia, but superior to the wool of the Barwal in 

 fineness, though not equal to it in length of fibre. The people of the 

 central region of the sub-Himalayas, to which region the Cagia sheep 



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