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 peculiarities of the whole tribe to conceal the profession by which they earn their living. It is permissible to infer that those who are indignant at a suspicion of eating grass are in fact graminivorous.

Men worship animals. I have already told you of the extraordinary devotion of which I was the unworthy object. They also worship horses. They provide them with dwellings, give them food daily, and attend carefully to their toilettes. No doubt such observances are an ingenuous recognition of the superiority of horses.

On the other hand, men feed goats, sheep and cattle. I have myself observed one extraordinary fact with reference to their behaviour to cows. They drink their milk! Our older scientists accepted this as a proof that they must once have been calves. I would not go so far as this, but the fact that they consume cow's milk may perhaps account for the bovine character of their intellects. Be that as it may, men feed and keep goats, sheep and cattle for greater