'294 Quadrupeds'ó f feÿlon.
m txilkéti • im tinÿtu I ■adfefrel videbantur ; 'flefraeto' nempé -wifu, <præ~
grattdem maris periem^ i^quPre^ uterine ednspufcafyM, *p¥öbÖscidi-
bus suis abstefgëbant. Qudmfâam-f'rMis
d in eh a u é iMdÈfôPi WUtl fæmkÊtr t u P i e h pÔUdus sus-
-tiiiebat.V:
«Vlhèuttenant Young,- jûïhly looking tipdn this ’discovery’* as |#f
importance in the natural went before
f liétgOVérnof'âhd! a- Magistrate â h d te a é e ë®K''t^^hi^cireiihi^
^stances • J^bave ' Wdâted y and the' SâMe % à s^ ô n e ?tey tbë‘ ' blaOk
people’ who“ had bfeënî eÿe-wïtnesSès) aliohg >W'ith ' him. ‘ Mr.
Hawker, purser of t t ó YieïöriêtM-; Mhn of %ar£1 h à d fh e dvffe
•detail^ from 'Yiéufenant YóBfej*,1' $ h o s*¥fefelted’t it «td hirnteüpbh
honour, -and ïefeiTëd him. tô th # ;déëlâràti©U
Hawker, whocómmrinicaf.ed the''accounfc^teWm^^^^pPml permission
to Make ü ^ - e f ' hl4 -ÿi£ftàe>'and to publish" it in *Éife<$fijw*
âÊnt 'editioir of this* work- $
Of the animals' usually applied to domestic «pSiÊpofeï^Geÿlon
• produces b ut feW. I hâve already mentioned that tlïe? ho^së-and
kbé^jar©."Höi natives óf this island, "and séafMy^ëairb^hÖÈËie
to thrive ithere when imported. The ’horses 'Which*
ith e small islands beÿohd' Jaihapataterj^ are' 'av’1h&8tÉH!*Öf »the
Arab attd th e - eömmöh i horse of ^thèv Ô a rn a ti^ ! T h ë ^ r,afë
mostly used for drawing gigs and-other'light ■ pleaSüre1 IVeMclfs.
. The Manilla, ; the ^Fegu, and the Atcheen horses,
employed for5 these purposes, and, though small," ttr’e Very ihqdh
esteemed on account óf _theflr -feSt 'trotting, their 'strength, M&fld
their heiag capable of enduring a great deal- óf fatigue. ,fSTÉë
horses used by the civil and military officers are chiefly Arabs
bfought'by-ttie way of Bombay.
As the expense of importation must be added to : the prrëê
■ Q u a 0 u p ^ f i 6 f : , C e y h n . ' _ ^ § 5
of sheep^tand horses, * arid as a great proportion, . particularly of
th e . former, > die on being Handed in the island,. these, animals J are
in consequence much dearer.here than in any other'part of In-
dia. Sheep/sometimes :fetch ten and even twenty times the
P4#&'^ley -do o h a p p o s i t e ormhafdeb'
- In Ceylon,, or indeed in any part of India, horses are hCVef
h i^ e ^ ^ w o i ;k , %pt f j^ d ^ ra ^ g ;; h ^ rt^ s t^ } As they
are scarcely ever castrated, they are indeed so spirited and vici-
GL?S as'-m some degree to' be,unfitted for these, purposes. feThfe
fbak^ v-aiid. v$ $ a g $ u i e t ^% h i c h ^ 4 * - i ^ iX ^ to
all°w their being kept by any, the *<W<|ailihyh%ypteaXfi,
T w o ^ tt^ d a n te j^ g iG ^ ta ^ ly attached-«to^e^alwljorsd g | bn^-s ©f
them-is« empky^di i^eutting. andlfetching him .as^mpch 1 grass ,as
h^eq^ires, to g at, wM g ^h&@ |h c^ ^ ^p are{pii
feed^. hi-aa,i ^dpmakes -him1 ready for toaster" tp ^ p o u n t-; -Thid.
Hastqattendant f^esfCr quits - Mist but fbtew^hdtn %herever
-4j3^'' i§;,ready* oh a>l$ (^fe^ions tq>q^ker'oliarge i-h’to .
I hav^ |4 e?^©md:;qf' th©|^%pferkcbpers,i as they ar^^fled^kebp
UP ^ #% *my, hpsrSe for twenty or thirty nnlfes^getb^jj while-*!
Y#^P#Peee.?hng‘ at the; rate of okjfe^^six. milks-'ah .bour.** ■
Thq>Tnd|qn horses are! extremely spirited,„-and 'often-* defend .
their riders1 against, the* attack of^qther^animals. * I -was ondfe
Myself indebfe^l,>1p- thqir prowess, for nijr a preservation -from1 the
fury blv 4, buffalM-which !I aoeidentallj^gfiGOti^tere^ati Ramna'd
-dilfe-' G^tomartd^. coast. It is * only’ -when, so^yfehns.: as-*
perfectly unmanageable that* these ajjlmafe #e^eyer castrated
in' this Quarter of thelfworld ; -'and'jin -this mutilated*bte,tq 1
decrease greatly in value,*;a§ >,they are then. bytno mhang sq.eaf-
pable of enduring the hem nflfhe cllihite; andl the*4i6lent-fatigue
which must hC'occasiohedt^by festertion inc these ■ countries»,.