304 Mr. Lambert's Further Account of the Bos Frontalis. 



the jungles, they prepare a number of balls, of the size of a man's 

 head, composed of a particular kind of earth, salt, and cotton; 

 they then drive their tame gyalls towards the wild ones, when the 

 two soon meet and assimilate into one herd, the males of the one 

 attaching: themselves to the females of the other, and rice versa. 

 The Kookies now scatter their balls over such parts of the jungle 

 as they think the herd most likely to pass, and watch its motions. 

 The gyalls, on meeting these balls as they go along, are attracted 

 by their appearance and smell, and begin to lick them with their 

 tongues; and relishing the taste of the salt, and the particular 

 earth composing them, they never quit the place until all the 

 balls are destroyed. The Kookies having observed the gyalls to 

 have once tasted their balls, prepare what they consider a sufficient 

 supply of them to answer the intended purpose, and as the gyalls 

 lick them up they throw down more; and to prevent their being 

 so readily destroyed they mix the cotton with the earth and salt. 

 This process generally goes on for three changes of the moon, or 

 for a month and a half; during which time the tame and wild 

 gyalls are always together licking the decoy balls; and the Kookie, 

 after the first day or two of their being so, makes his appearance 

 at such a distance as not to alarm the wild ones. By degrees 

 he approaches nearer and nearer, until at length the sight of him 

 has become so familiar that he can advance to stroke his tame 

 gyalls on the back and neck without frightening away the wild 

 ones. He next extends his hand to them, and caresses them also, 

 at the same time giving them plenty of his decoy balls to lick; and 

 thus in the short space of time mentioned he is able to drive them 

 along with his tame ones to his parrah, or village, without the 

 least exertion of force or coercion : and so attached do the gyalls 

 Income to the parrah, that when the Kookies migrate from one 



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