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fome without horns at all, differing alfo in the colour and 

 length of their hair, by having boffes upon their backs, ac- 

 cording as their pafture or climate varies. There are kinds 

 aftb deftined. to various ufes ; fome for carriage, like mules 

 or afTes, fome to be rode upon like horfes ; and thefe are not 

 the largefl of that kind, but generally below the middle 

 fize. As for that fpecies bearing the monftraus horns, of 

 which I have often, fpoke in my narrative, their fize is not 

 to be eftimated by that of their horns ; the animal itfelf is> 

 not near fo big as a common Engliffi cow; the growth of 

 the horn is a<difeafe which proves fatal to them, becaufe 

 encouraged for a pecuhar purpofe, Whether it would be 

 otherwife curable, has not yet, I believe, been ever afcer- 

 tained by experiment. But the reader may with confidence 

 affure himfeif, that there are no fuch animals as carnivo- 

 rous bulls in Africa, and that this ftory has been invented 

 for no other purpofe but a defire to exhibit an animal worthy 

 of wearing thele prodigious horns. I have always wifhed 

 that this article, and fome others of early date, were blotted 

 out of our philofophical tran factions ; they are abfurdities 

 to be forgiven to infant phyfic and to early travels, but they 

 are unworthy of ftanding among the cautious, well-fup- 

 ported narratives of our prefent philofophers. Though we 

 may fay of the buffaloe that it is of this kind, yet we can- 

 not call it a tame animal here ; fo far from that, it is the 

 mofc ferocious in the country where he refides ; this, how- 

 ever, is not in the high temperate part of Abyfllnia, but in 

 the fultry Kolla, or valleys below, where, without hiding 

 himfeif, as wild beafts generally do, as if confeious, of fupe- 

 riority of ftrength, lie lyes at his eafe among large fpread- 

 ing fhady trees near the cleared and deepen rivers, or the 

 largefl Stagnant pools of the pureft water. Notwithstand- 

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