Scribner's magazine . Domesticated Buffaloes in Egypt. peculiarities of climate impose upontheir possessors. The relations of the goat to mankindare in certain ways peculiar. The creat-ure has long been subjugated, probablyhaving come into the human family be-fore the dawn of history. It has beenalmost as widely disseminated, amongbarbarian and civilized peojoles alike,as the sheep. It readily cleaves to thehousehold, and exhibits much more in-telligence than the other members of. \> f Cattle of India. be made to vary in a larger measurethan any of our animals which are this creat
Scribner's magazine . Domesticated Buffaloes in Egypt. peculiarities of climate impose upontheir possessors. The relations of the goat to mankindare in certain ways peculiar. The creat-ure has long been subjugated, probablyhaving come into the human family be-fore the dawn of history. It has beenalmost as widely disseminated, amongbarbarian and civilized peojoles alike,as the sheep. It readily cleaves to thehousehold, and exhibits much more in-telligence than the other members of. \> f Cattle of India. be made to vary in a larger measurethan any of our animals which are this creature has never obtained theplace in relation to man to which itseems entitled. Only here and thereis it kept in considerable numbers ormade the basis of extensive reason for this seems to be thatthese animals cannot readily be kept inflocks in the manner of sheep. Theyare only partly gregarious, and tend tostray from the owners keeping. Thereseems reason also to believe that theycannot easily be made to vary in othercharacters excej^t their hairy coveringat the will of the breeder, and so vari-eties cannot be formed, as is the casewith sheep, to suit eacli peculiarity ofsoil and climate. Thus in Europe,where it would be easy to name a scoreof distinct breeds of slieej), each pecul-iarly well suited to the conditions ofthe country where it had been devel-oped, tlie goats are singularly original stock of tliese creaturesappears to have been adapted to
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