china-cow

Updated: June 27, 2025

He explained to me, at my request, what sort of things he would like any future visitors to bring him a piece of gold and silver embroidery; but, before anything else, I found he would like to have toys such as Yankee clocks with the face in a man's stomach, to wind up behind, his eyes rolling with every beat of the pendulum; or a china-cow milk-pot, a jack-in-the-box, models of men, carriages, and horses all animals in fact, and railways in particular.

John Hanning Speke - The Discovery of the Source of the Nile