THE ARNEE. 109 



This last sketch (3) is from a pair of horns in the 

 British Museum, of which the following are the 

 dimensions : 



Ft. In. 



The horn a, from tip to base, along the outer curve 6 6 

 The horn b ditto ditto 6 3 



Circumference at the base of horn a . .15 



Ditto ditto of horn b . . .16* 



The Arnee is by far the largest animal of the Ox tribe 

 yet known. In its native country it is said to measure 

 usually twelve, sometimes fourteen, feet from the ground 

 to the highest part of the back ! The one in the vignette, 

 p. Ill, comparing it with the man on its back, would 

 not seem to be quite so tall. 



From the appearance of the three Arnees in the painting 

 before mentioned, it would seem that they are quite 

 docile, and easily tamed ; for they are all standing quietly, 

 with a person on their back, who guides them by means 

 of a rein, formed of a cord fastened to the gristle of the 

 nose, in the Eastern manner. The colour of the animal, 

 in all the three figures, is a pure black, except between 

 the horns, where there is a small tuft of longish hair of a 

 bright red colour. 



From the accounts of more recent travellers, there seem 

 to be two or three varieties of this animal, which exist, 

 both in a wild and domestic state, in China as well as 

 India. 



According to Major Smith, the gigantic or Taur- 

 elephant Arnee, appears to be rare; found only single, 

 or in small families, in the upper eastern provinces and 



* In Shaw's ' Zoology,' it is mentioned that a Mr. Dillon saw some 

 horns in India which were ten feet long. 



