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86 M A VBRY hSyjBlj COUNTRY. tM« until only the down is left, as a snalf e eh^^ti* hl8 skm. When they run, they carry it »rect like a Btiorpion. It is worth notidng that the little calTes are red and just like ours, but they change their col- or and appearance with time and age. "Another strange thing was that all the bulls that were killed had their left ears slit, although these were whole when young. The reason lor this was a puzzle that could not be guessed. The wool ought to make good cloth on account of its fineness, although the color is not good, because it is the color of beryl. "Another thing worth noticing is that the bulls traveled without cows, in such large numbers that nobody could haye counted them, and so far away from the cows that it was more than forty leagues from where we began to see the bulls to the place where we began to see the cows. !I!he country they traveled over was sO level and sinobth that if one looked at them the sky could be seen between their legs, so that if some of them were at a distance they looked like smooth-trunked pines whose tops jointed, and if there was only one bull, it looked as if there were four pines. When one was near them it was impossible to see the ground on the other side of them. The reason for all this was that the country seemed as round as if a man should imagine himself in a three-pint measure, and could see the sky at the edge of it, about a cross-bow shot from him; and even if a man only lay down on his back he lost sight of the ground." . "The country is so level that men became lost