The pace of the animals is not unpleasant, but the stretching across the broad backs of the gigantic carabaos of the Philippines is very fatiguing.

With the exception of the flat shore, the whole place is hilly and overgrown with grass and clumps of trees, capital pasture for its numerous herdsa thousand carabaos, one thousand five hundred to two thousand bullocks, and from six to seven hundred nearly wild horses.