106 THE OX TRIBE. 



The figure, which is given at the end of this article, is 

 copied from a curious Indian painting, in the possession 

 of Gilbert Innes, of Stow. It forms one of a numerous 

 group of figures, represented at a grand Eastern festival. 

 There are two more of them in the same painting. In 

 this and both the others, the horns bend inwards in a 

 circular form ; and it would seem, too, that if a transverse 

 section of the horn was made at any place, that also would 

 be circular. But this is a defect in the painting, for 

 although all the horns of the Arnee tribe bend in a cir- 

 cular form, yet if the horn be cut transversely, the section 

 is not circular, but rather of a triangular shape. The 

 horns of the Arnee rise in a curve upwards, nearly in the 

 same plane with the forehead, neither bending forward 

 nor backward. That part of the horn which fronts you 

 when the animal looks you in the face, is nearly flat, 

 having a ridge projecting a little forward all along, nearer 

 the outer curvature of the horn ; from that ridge outward 

 it goes backward, not at right angles, but bending a little 

 outward ; and near the back part there is another obtuse 

 rounded ridge, where it turns inward, so as to join another 

 obtuse, rounded angle, at the inner curvature of the horn. 

 Along the whole length, especially toward the base of the 

 horn, there are irregular transverse dimples, or hollows 

 and rugosities, more nearly resembling those of a ram, 

 than that of a common ox's horn, but no appearance of 

 rings, denoting the age of the animal, as in the horns of 

 our cattle. 



This description of the horns is taken from a pair 

 of real horns of the animal, now in the possession of 

 Mr. James Haig, merchant in Leith, that were sent home 

 to him this year (1792) by his brother, Mr. W. Haig, of 



