1014 On the tame Sheep, $>c. of Tibet. [Oct. 



is confined, dress almost entirely in cottons, and consequently do not 

 much heed the fleece of their sheep. But the Newars of Nepal-proper, 

 where the Cagia most abounds, manufacture its wool into several stuffs, 

 often mixed with cotton. 



These manufactures, however, are sheerly domestic, and of little con- 

 sideration, the products being poor and coarse, though owing more to 

 unskilful manufacture than to the inferiority of the raw material, none 

 of the mountain tribes east of Cashmir, possessing any portion of that 

 high proficiency in the art of weaving, which has for ages given such 

 celebrity to the looms of Cashmir, as of Delhi, of Benares, of Dacca 

 and to Guzerat. 



The Cagia sheep is a handsome breed, but the head is too large, the 

 chaffron too prominent, and the legs too short for perfect beauty. The 

 head is large, and massive : the eye small and pale : the ears longish 

 pointed, narrow and pendant ; the body full and deep ; the legs short 

 and rigidly perpendicular but fine ; the tail short and deer-like, as in 

 all the other breeds ; the nose only less romanised than in the Barwal ; 

 and the massive horns only inferior in thickness to that breed. In the 

 Cagia the horns are trigonal, very moderately compressed, heavily 

 wrinkled, and curved circularly to the sides with a tense flexure, the 

 flat smooth points being usually directed outwards and upwards, but 

 in old age sometimes recurved into a second spheroid, the points still 

 having the same direction as in case of the single spiration. Thus the 

 Cagia is nearly as well armed for battle as the Barwal : but he is less 

 used in that way by the rich and idle, owing to his inferior size and 

 courage. The beautiful lambs are the constant pets of the ladies, this 

 breed being of all the most docile, and made almost a domestic animal 

 by the Newars of Nepal-proper. The Cagia is confined to the central 

 region of the hills and extends longitudinally, or west and east, from 

 the Naraini to the Dudh Cosi. The colour is very generally white. 

 Some few are black or ochreous yellow, and the young are apt to be of 

 the last hue, turning white as they grow up. The males are almost 

 invariably horned, and the females frequently, even generally, so ; but 

 hornless females are not uncommon. Polycerate varieties seem unknown 

 to the Cagia as to the Barwal breed, but are common in the Hunia, 

 heard of in the Silingia breed. And here I may observe, that I have 

 described the whole of the sheep, and shall do the goats, from mature 



