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be excellent as a pickle ; and ftewed, it mada a mod agreeable 
four fauce to our boiled dilhes. 
The tame animals are buffaloes, fheep, goats, hogs, fowls, 
pigeons, horfes, affes, dogs and cats ; and of all tnefe there 
is great plenty. The buffaloes differ very confiderably from 
the horned cattle of Europe in feveral particulars ; their ears 
are much larger, their {kins are almoit without hair, their 
horns are curved towards each other, but together bend di- 
reftly backwards, and they have no dewlaps. We faw fiyeral 
that were as big as a well grown European ox, and there muff 
be fome much larger ; for Mr. Banks faw a pair of horns 
which meafured from tip to tip three feet nine inches and an 
half, acrofs their wideft diameter four feet one inch and an 
half, and in the whole fweep of their femi-circle in front fe- 
ven feet fix inches and a half. It muff however be obferved, 
that a buffalo here of any given fize, does not weigh above 
half as much as an ox of the fame fize in England : thofe that 
we gueffed to weigh four hundredweight did not weigh more 
than two hundred and fifty ; the reafon is, that fo late in the 
dry feafon the bones are very thinly covered with flefh : there 
is not an ounce of fat in a whole carcafs, and the flanks are li- 
terally nothing but Ikin and bone : the fieih however is well 
tafted and juicy, and I fuppofe better than the fieih of an Eng- 
liffi ox would be if he was to ftarve in this fun-burnt country. 
The horfes are from eleven to twelve hands high, but 
though they are fmall, they are fpirited and nimble, especially 
in pacing, which is their common Itep : the inhabitants ge- 
nerally ride them without a faddle, and with no better bridle 
than a halter. The Iheep are of the kind which in England 
are called Bengal Iheep, and differ from ours in many parti- 
culars. They are covered with hair inftead of wool, their 
ears are veiy large, and hang down under their horns, and 
their nofes are arched ; they are thought to have a general 
refemblance to a goat, and for that reafon are frequently cal- 
led cabritos : their fieih we thought the worfl: mutton we had 
ever eaten, being as lean as that of the buffaloes, and with- 
out flavour. The hogs, however, were fome of the fatteff 
that we had ever feen, though, as we were told, their princi- 
pal food is the outfi.de hulks of rice, and the pa;m fyrup difi'olv- 
ed in water. The fowls are • hiefiy of the game breed, and 
large, but the eggs are remarkably fmali. 
Oi the filh which the fea produces here, we know but little : 
turtles are fometimes found upon the coaft, and are by thefe 
people, as well as all o ittrs, confi Jered as a dainty. 
The people are rather under, than over the middling fize ; 
the women efpeckfily ire remarka ly fhort and lquat built : 
their complexion is a dark brown, and their hair univerfally 
black and lank. We faw no difference in the colour of rich 
and 
