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This sage opinion, soon spread like wildfire. 

 Everybody who went to see the prodigy, confirmed 

 its genealogy ; and nothing was talked of, far 

 and near, but the prodigy to be seen at the abode 

 of Mynheer Laing. 



When I would occasionally remark, that such a 

 union of animals so opposite in their nature, could 

 not be; and that I could not compromise myself 

 by patronising such a preposterous deformity, the 

 men pitied my incredulity, and the matrons said 

 that I had better attend to my own business. 

 These last affirmed that the animal in question was 

 half cow, and half bush-cow, in spite of all that I 

 could say to the contrary. 



Determined to see with my own eyes this won- 

 derful production, I went up the river Demerara, 

 with my friend Mr. Edmonstone, to pay a visit to 

 its owner. 



The Dutch gentleman received us with his usual 

 courtesy ; and after partaking of a cup of excellent 

 coffee with him, not mixed with chicory, which, so 

 far back as the days of Don Quixote, was in no 

 great repute, (see Tonsons edition, page 56, 

 part 1st, libr. 1st, chapter 8th,) we proceeded to the 

 stable where the phenomenon was kept ; Mynheer 

 observing, as we went along, that such a curiosity 

 had never been seen, since his countrymen had 



