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E. I. C. Mus.’) the following account is given: ‘“ These people (i.e. the 
inhabitants of the frontiers) have tame gayals, which occasionally breed, 
but the greater part of their stock is bred in the woods and caught ; 
after which, being a mild animal, it is easily domesticated. The usual 
manner employed to catch the full-grown gayal is to surround a field of 
corn with a strong fence. One narrow entrance is left, in which is placed 
a rope with a running noose, which secures the gayal by the neck as he 
enters to eat the corn; of ten so caught perhaps three are hanged by 
the noose running too tight, and by the violence of their struggling. 
Young gayals are caught by leaving in the fence holes of a size sufficient 
to admit a calf, but which excludes the full-grown gayal ; the calves enter 
by these holes, which are then shut by natives who are watching, and 
who secure the calves. The gayal usually goes in herds of from twenty 
to forty, and frequents dry valleys and the sides of hills covered with 
Gaveus frontalis. 
forest.” Professor Garrod, in his Ungulata in Cassell’s Natural History, 
quotes the following account from Mr. Macrae concerning the way in 
which the Kookies of the Chittagong hill regions catch the wild gayal : 
“On discovering a herd of wild gayals in the jungle they prepare a 
number of balls, the size of a man’s head, composed of a particular kind 
of earth, salt and cotton. They then drive their tame gayals towards 
the wild ones, when the two herds soon meet and assimilate into one, 
the males of the one attaching themselves to the females of the other, 
and wice verst. The Kookies now scatter their balls over such parts of 
the jungles as they think the herd most likely to pass, and watch its 
motions. The gayals, on meeting these balls as they pass 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 
