Goats are very large, as big as the calves in England, and very
plentiful; sheep are also very large. Cattle are small; many are
oxen. Milk of camels and goats is preferred to that of cows. Horses
are small, and are principally fed upon camels' milk; they are of
the greyhound[50] shape, and will travel three days without rest.
They have dromedaries[51] which travel from Timbuctoo[52] to
Tafilelt in the short period of five or six days.
[Footnote 50: These horses are the desert horse, or the
_shrubat er'reeh_. See Jackson's Marocco, 2d or 3d edition, p.
94. to 96.]
[Footnote 51: These are _El Heirie_, (or _Erragual_), for a
particular description of which see Jackson's Marocco, p. 91.
to 93.]
[Footnote 52: A distance of upwards of 1200 British miles.]
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BIRDS.
They have common fowls, ostriches, and a bird larger than our
blackbird[53]; also storks, which latter are birds of passage, and
arrive in the spring and disappear at the approach of winter;
swallows, &c.
[Footnote 53: The starling.]