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3 ■ Moles are little used in India, and are moil; wratalfeed where thc^
4 do exiflt. In the west of the Punjaub however, are some bettor
5 mules : those west of the Indus are better itiU, and they (xmtinue to
6 Improve as we get westward, though they never equal those of f^ig-
7 land. The same obser\*ations apply to the asses, and these animfds
8 are of much importance, tlie mules hf^'mfr much used in carrying the.
9 baggage ot avmi(?s. atid the asses being the principal moans of carry-
10 ing manure and other futicles from one part of a to another^ aa
11 well of transporting the produce to market.
12 Camels are, however, on the whole, the animal most r'm))lo\eci for
13 OBrriage. The dromedary is found in nil tlic plain country, but most
14 fal sandy and dry parts ; this is the tall, long legged animal common
15 tn Tiulia. The Bactrian camel (which I understand is called Uzhree
16 in Toofkee) is much more rare, and I believe is brought from the
17 Kuzzauk coumtry beyond the Jaxartes. He is lower by a third at
18 iaaat than tiM otbor, is very stout, and ooyered with shaggy black
19 hairy and hm tm ^ystiBct Immps, instead of the one bnndi of tfie
20 dKonedaiy* The Boghdee cflnid» in the loiitb^mBt <ii KhorMDomii
21 if ahaped like the . last mentioned, but is as tall as the dzomedsij.
22 Ihren this last varies, the diOBedaffies of Khoiassaim bemgloperaad
23 aloater then those of India.
24 BidBdoas, which aflhct hot and moist eountries, are natuiaUj rare;
25 they are howerct to be found in many parts of A^hannlstaink
26 Hie OK M used to i^mifjlk att over the Gsirinil dominions, imless^
27 periiiqp8» in Bulkh, where horses are so common. The species
28 sembies iheox of india, In having a bump } but it is inforior in most
29 leapects. Oxen are imfioited from the Bi^poot country, where thero
30 ase the best in India, except perhaps Guiexat. No herda of oxen
31 ero k^ except round the lake of Seestaon, and according to some
32 aeoounts, in part of the Canker country.
33 llie great stock of the pastoral tribes is sheep, and those of the
34 kind called in Persian Doomba, and remarkable for t«ils a foot broad,
35 and ahnost entirelj composed of &t. This kind in other respecta re-