ioo WESTERN HINDOOSTAN. 



The beafls are commonly white, have black nofes, and large 

 perpendicular horns : they are alfo remarkable, like molt other 

 Indian and African cattle, for a hunch riling between the 

 flioulders. Thofe of Guzerat are nioft remarkably large, and 

 in great requeft through moft parts of India, The hunch 

 is highly efteemed as a delicacy, faired and boiled. When 

 they are fitted for the faddle or the draft, a cord, and fome- 

 times a piece of wood is paifjd through the nofe from 

 noitril to nortril, and a cord extended from each end, as a 

 bridle. M. Sonnerat, vol. i. tab. 7, gives a print of the Hacker ie, 

 or Garif as it is called in India^ and all its apparatus. In Eng- 

 landf if thefe creatures are forced out of their ufual flow pace, 

 it is too well known that they will faint, or lie down under their 

 burthen ; but at Bombay, they trot and gallop as naturally as 

 horfes, and are equally as ferviceable in every other refpedt, ex- 

 cept that, by their being fubjeil to a loofe habit of body, they 

 fometimes incommode the traveller by the filth thrown upon 

 him by the continual motion of their tails. Whenever they get 

 to the end of the journey, the driver always alights, and puts the 

 near bullock in the other's place ; then he puts his hand into 

 both their mouths, and after pulling out the froth, mounts his 

 box again and drives back. It feems this precaution is abfolutely 

 neceflary, for as they travel at the rate of feven or eight miles 

 an hour, they would other wife be in danger of fufFocation. 



Besides the large fpecies which I have engraven in vol. i. 

 tab. ii. of my Hji.^iadr, is a diminutive fpecies, tab. iii, common 

 at Sitrat, not bigger than a large dog, which has a fierce look, 

 but is trained to draw children in their little carts. I have been 



informed. 



