THE ANGOEA GOAT; 
WITH AN ACCOUNT OF 
ITS INTRODUCTION INTO VICTORIA, 
AND A REPORT ON THE FLOCK BELONGING TO THE ZOOLOGICAL AND 
ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY OF VICTORIA, NOW RUNNING AT 
LONGERENONG, IN THE WIMMERA DISTRICT. 
BY 
SAMUEL WILSON, 
Vice-President of the Zoological and Acclimatisation Society; 
President of the National Agricultural Society ; and President of 
the Wimmera District Pastoral and Agricultural Society. 
From a very early period in the world's history after 
its occupation by the human race, the goat as well as 
the sheep has been subjected to domestication. A great 
part of the wealth of the patriarchs consisted of their 
flocks of sheep and goats. From the greater docility, 
intelligence, and courage of the goat as compared with 
that of the sheep, as well as from its capability of 
adapting itself to many different climates, it has been a 
constant attendant on civilized, as well as on many 
savage races of man in most parts of the globe. In 
Switzerland, during the early Stone period, the goat 
was commoner than the sheep (Rutimeyer). 
The species from which the domestic goat is believed 
by most naturalists to be derived, is the Paseng or 
iEgagrus, the wild goat of the mountains of Caucasus 
and of Persia. By some, however, the Ibex is supposed 
to be the wild prototype of the animal. 
