Even at the present day it is seen near the Red Sea; and as within the memory of man it had a much larger range than can now be assigned to it, we may safely conjecture that it resided in Palestine in sufficient numbers to afford a constant supply of food to the royal residence. In size the Bubale is about equal to that of a heifer, and its general colour is reddish brown. The head is long and narrow, so that the heavy and deeply-ridged horns seem to stand out with peculiar boldness. The shoulders are rather high, the neck is very ox-like, and from the end of the tail hangs a tuft of long black hair. It is a gregarious animal, and is found in herds, though not of very great numbers. The Bubale is closely allied to the hartebeest, the well-known antelope of Southern Africa. THE SHEEP. Importance of Sheep in the Bible--The Sheep the chief wealth of the pastoral tribes--Tenure of land--Value of good pasture-land--Arab shepherds of the present day--Difference between the shepherds of Palestine and England--Wanderings of the flocks in search of food--Value of the wells--How the Sheep are watered--Duties of the shepherd--The shepherd a kind of irregular soldier--His use of the sling--Sheep following their shepherd--Calling the Sheep by name--The shepherd usually a part owner of the flocks--Structure of the sheepfolds--The rock caverns of Palestine--David's adventure with Saul--Penning of the Sheep by night--Use of the dogs--Sheep sometimes brought up by hand--How Sheep are fattened in the Lebanon district--The two breeds of Sheep in Palestine--The broad-tailed Sheep, and its peculiarities--Reference to this peculiarity in the Bible--The Talmudical writers, and their directions to sheep-owners. We now come to a subject which will necessarily occupy us for some little time. There is, perhaps, no animal which occupies a larger space in the Scriptures than the SHEEP. Whether in religious, civil, or domestic life, we find that the Sheep is bound up with the Jewish nation in a way that would seem almost incomprehensible, did we not recall the light which the New Testament throws upon the Old, and the many allusions to the coming Messiah under the figure of the Lamb that taketh away the sins of the world. In treating of the Sheep, it will be perhaps advisable to begin the account by taking the animal simply as one of those creatures which have been domesticated from time immemorial, dwelling slightly on those points on which the sheep-owners of the old days differed from those of our own time.