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Their resemblance to cattle has always deterred Hindoos, to 

 whom the cow is a sacred animal, from molesting them ; while the 

 bare idea that they were the private property of any great man 

 would have been safeguard sufficient to prevent their destruction 

 by Mahomedans and others who eat beef ; for there cannot be any 

 people more willing to accept, or more implicit believers in the 

 right to issue, game laws than are the various Indian tribes, all of 

 whose records and legends grant to their rulers unlimited powers 

 in this respect. 



It is both for the cause of sport and of agriculture, much to be 

 deplored, that we do not establish some laws in this respect, or at 

 any rate that we do not make it penal to kill certain animals, or 

 birds during the breeding season, or to sell them at any time dead 

 or alive without a license. 



Setting the feelings of a sportsman aside, a little protection to 

 insectivorous animals, and birds-, foxes and partridges for example, 

 would be of immense advantage to the husbandmen. 



The indiscriminate destruction and capture of game of all kinds 

 by natives during the breeding season is fast clearing off many of 

 the most useful allies of the Eastern farmer. 



A wounded blue bull at bay is a very fine-looking animal and 

 one that should be approached with some caution, for at such a time 

 he will charge home very gallantly at either man or dog and, like 

 all others of the deer tribe he can when so inclined, make excellent 

 use of his forefeet as well as of his horns. I remember a notable 

 instance of this ; in a large bull, whose foreleg I had broken just 

 below the shoulder. Notwithstanding his wound however, he got 

 away so fast, that I do not think I should ever have seen him again, 

 had not a large red pariah dog, with sporting instincts most unlike 

 those natural to his ignoble race, joined in the pursuit and brought 

 the bull to bay. When I came up the scene was one worthy of 

 Landseer. A large blue bull is at all times a fine, looking animal, 

 and this one looked very formidable as, mad with rage and pain, 

 with head lowered and tail erect, he made frantic charges at his 

 adversary, and notwithstanding the crippled limb which was hang- 

 ing useless at his side attempted to crush the dog with his remain- 

 ing forefoot by rearing up and trying to drop on him. I was too 



