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Title: Animal products;
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Simmonds, Peter Lund, 1814-1897. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Animal products. (from old catalog) Domestic animals. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New York, Pub. by Scribner, Welford, and Armstrong
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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,500,000 Reunion . . 1874, 9,295 The Quagga (Eqmis Quaggd) has been tamed. The Hottentots-and other natives of South Africa hunt the animal for its flesh.Lieut. Moodie, in his Ten Years in South Africa, says he oncehad a piece of the flesh cooked for his breakfast, grilled andpeppered, and he did not find it at all unpalatable. It was, headds, certainly better than the horse-flesh which was served tohim in the hospital at Bergen-op-Zoom in 1814. Captain Burton,in his Central Africa, tells us that of wild flesh the favourite isthat of the Zebra (E. Zebra) • it is smoked or jerked, despitewhich it retains a most savoury flavour. The Roman peasants found the flesh of the ass palatable, andthe celebrated Maecenas having tasted it, introduced it to thetables of the great and rich, but the fashion of eating it lasted nolonger than his life. Galen compares the flesh of the ass to thatof the stag. It is said to be eaten plentifully in the guinguettes ofParis, under the denomination of veal.
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328 SPECIES OE ELEPHANTS. PACHYDERMATA. The Elephant.—There are at present but two existing speciesof this huge pachyderm, and its principal economic product is theivory which it furnishes to commerce. Besides these contemporary races of elephants, the market isextensively supplied with the ivory derived from the tusks ofthe great mammoth or fossil elephant of the geologist. Theremains of this gigantic animal are abundantly distributed overthe whole extent of the globe. They exist in large masses in thenorthern hemisphere, deeply embedded in the alluvial deposits ofthe tertiary period. Humboldt discovered specimens on some ofthe most elevated ridges of the Andes; and similar remains havebeen found in Africa. In the frozen regions of the far North,surrounded by successive layers of everlasting ice, the fossil ivoryexists in a state of perfect preservation, and it constitutes animportant article of commerce in the north of Europe. A true elephant roamed in countless herds over the tem

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