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and therefore they are absolutely invaluable to Queensland settlers. The 
crossbreds retain this fine characteristic, and their hides have been proved 
to make better leather, their size is larger, and the cows give a richer 
milk. In the pure-bred Zebu cow the milk, though not of great quantity, 
is wonderfully rich in butter-fat. 
The black bull in the accompanying illustration is a much travelled 
gentleman. He has been all over Australia with Wirth’s circus, not as 
a performer, but simply on show in the ring as a splendid specimen of 
this sacred cattle. Naturally so much adulation has had a good deal 
to do with turning his head, and he is exceedingly vain. The cow has 
lately recovered from one of the greatest operations ever performed in 
Australia on an animal. She was successfully treated by Veterinary 
Surgeon Lewis, and her life was saved and health skilfully restored when 
it was thought she must die. To-day she is as happy as though she 
had never known a day’s anxiety in her life. 
THE ONE AND ONLY ANOA. 
The Anoa is the smallest member of the tribe of buffaloes. It 
comes from the Celebes, and has not huge, spreading horns like the 
bigger buffaloes, but short, straight, serviceable ones that cannot be 
trusted within range of anything living. It looks as mild as the gazelle, 
or the Cape Barren Goose, and like that goose, it uses its looks to ingrati- 
ate itself with strangers. Those who know the gentleman regard his 
appearance as the sheep mask over the wolf nature. A story is told 
that an anoa was sent to England as a present to the owner of a deer 
park. The little thing looked so innocent and so harmless that he was 
placed among the deer without scruple. Next morning twenty or thirty 
dead deer were stretched out in various attitudes over the park, and 
the anoa was busily searching for other prey to slaughter. 
When the first one arrived at the Melbourne Zoo the staff took him 
at his face value, but were quickly undeceived. ' Those business-like 
horns were used to break down everything within reach. They had to 
hastily strengthen every fence near him. He made so many attempts to 
get at the deer in the paddock next to him that they had to keep constant 
watch over him. In sheer lust of killing he massacred his mate and her 
calf, and then the keepers, in despair, blunted his horns to moderate 
his transports. He acquired such an unsavory reputation that there 
was not a man in the gardens willing to go into his paddock alone; and 
none of them liked going in any way. Even with his blunted horns he 
could have killed anything he tackled with murderous intent. But before 
