ZEBU

is a kind of ox very similar to the ordinary ox, except for the hump between its shoulders, and is often called ‘the Brahmin ox.’ The size of the hump varies very much, being as much as 50 lbs. weight in well-fed animals that do no work, and the flesh of it is considered a great delicacy by Europe ans in India. The animals are used for draught and for burden, and can travel, on the average, about 25 miles a day. In the recent French campaign in Madagascar it was found that neither horses nor mules could insect—called be used for the field-guns, ’—which because of a small ' carapetes inserted itself between their skin and their flesh, and then tortured them into a state of complete exhaustion. In the emergency it was found advisable to import herds of the zebu, which were trained to the gun-work within four or five weeks, and which proved extremely satisfactory, as they donkey—seem are very quiet and teachable, and—like the Irish to have no nerves.