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ADVENTURES. 



THE NYL GHA0. 



The following anecdote will serve to snow that these animals 

 are sometimes fierce and vicious, and not to be depended upon : 

 A laboring man, without knowing that the animal was near him, 

 went up to. the outside of the inclosure ; the Nyl Ghau, with the 

 quickness of lightning, darted against the woodwork with such 

 violence, that he dashed it to pieces, and broke one of his horns 

 close to the root. The death of the animal, soon after, was sup- 

 posed to be owing to the injury he sustained by the blow. 



The Nyl Ghau is hunted by the natives of Persia and Elm- 

 doostan with spears, guns, bows and arrows, and hounds. When 

 meditating an attack it falls on its fore knees, as represented in the 

 cut at the head of this chapter, and shuffles forward to within a 

 short distance of its object, when it darts forward with a powertu, 

 spring, and butts in the most determined manner. A horse and 



