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A DESCRIPTION OP 
Dr. James, bear frequent testimony to the almost in- 
credible numbers in which these animals assemble on the 
banks of the Missouri. " Such was their multitude," 
say the first-named travellers, "that, although the river, 
including an island over which they passed, was a mile in 
breadth, the herd stretched, as thick as they could swim, 
completely from one side to the other." And again they 
say : " If it be not impossible to calculate the moving 
multitude which darkened the whole plains, we are con- 
vinced that twenty thousand would be no exaggerated 
number." Dr. James tells us that, " in the middle of the 
day, countless thousands of them were seen coming in 
from every quarter to the stagnant pools ;" their paths, as 
he informs us elsewhere, being "as frequent, and almost 
as conspicuous, as the roads in the most populous parts of 
the United States." 
THE ZEBU, OR BRAHMIN BULL. (Bos Indicus.) 
PENNANT describes the Zebu, or Indian Ox, as sometimes 
surpassing in size the largest of the European breeds, 
and the hunch on his shoulders as weighing frequently 
fifty pounds. There are many varieties, with and without 
horns, differing in size from that above named down to 
