of three distinct breeds: the small Indian cattle — large-humped, and extremely docile — gave the best milk, though for eating purposes the half Portuguese long-horned variety was best. Where the third variety originally came from I have not been able to find out. They were weedy medium sized cattle, usually white or piebald in colour, and not very good either for fattening or as milkers. We also took two fine breeds of donkeys — the large white Syrian ass, and the cross between this and the small donkey, in appearance very like the coster's donkey of this country.

The Syrian ass, though a fine animal, with one or two exceptions, did not turn out so useful as either of the other varieties. The cross between the common kind and the Syrian ass was enormously strong, and, though often bad-tempered, was