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Mr. Swinhoe from a Chinese newspaper : " The 
neighbouring hills have these animals in abundance. 
They are caught and tamed, and are trained for use 
in the ploughing of fields and drawing of carts. . . . 
Formosa has an abundance of wild cattle, occurring 
in herds of hundreds and thousands. When it is 
desired to capture them, a wooden stockade is erected 
with four sides, in one of which is left a door. The 
cattle are driven towards it until they all enter, 
when the gate is shut on them and they are barred in 
and left to starve. They are afterwards by degrees 
haltered and bridled, and treated to fodder and beans, 
until they become not different from domestic cattle." 
These Formosan cattle are of the same breed as the 
"yellow cows" of southern China, and must almost 
certainly have been introduced at some unknown date 
from that couqtry, although Mr. Swinhoe was half in- 
clined to believe that they might be aboriginally wild. 
Turning to the humped cattle of Africa, it may be 
mentioned in the first place that many of these 
exhibit a development of horn quite unparalleled — 
both as regards length and girth — among the Indian 
breeds, while the hump does not seem to be ever very 
large, and may be absent, as has been already shown 
to be the case among the ancient Egyptian breeds. 
As mentioned in the preceding chapter, the long- 
horned cattle of ancient Egypt died out at an early 
period — probably from pestilence ; and at the present 
day it is but rarely that animals with long horns are 
seen in the country, and these of a type distinct from 
the Pharaonic breed.^ Indeed, it is not till we reach 
^ R. Hartmann, " Haussaugetiere der Nillander," Annalen der 
Lande, vol. xliv. p. 20. 
