j^^ GANGETIC HINDOOSTAN. 



The fheep of India are covered with hair inltead of wool, 

 except towards the very northern parts. 



My four-horned ram, p. 39. E. is found at AJfam, the tail is 

 fliort and pointed. 



Among Lady Impefs drawings-, I find what is infcribed the 

 JJjawl-goat with fmooth horns, with a fingle fpiral twift, and 

 between them a long tuft of white hairs ; face white, bounded 

 lengthways with a dark line, cheeks pale red ; hind ])art of the 

 head and neck, fore-part of the throat and the beard white, 

 reft of the hair black, all very long; ftrait ears, white and 

 jjendent. 

 Aktelopes. India, efpecially Bengal and Oude, abound in feveral elegant 



fpecies of Antelopes. Among them is the Jlgazel, N" 24, the 

 Uindoojlan, N° 31, a clumfy fpecies, with a hump on the fhoulders, 

 and the white-footed, N° 32. The laft is the Nilgau^ or the 

 orey ox of the Indians. It is a fort of royal game, and a great 

 objed of chace to the princes of the country. Bernier fays, 

 that they are driven into nets and killed with pikes, and other 

 weapons by the numerous Chajfenrs. Aurengzebe ufed to pre- 

 fent the Qmrahs attendant on him with the quarters. The 

 following extract from an agreeable traveller, gives a magnifi- 

 cent idea of an Oriental hunt. 

 Grand Hunt- " The time chofen for the hunting party is about the begin- 

 ♦' ning of December^ and the diverfion is continued till the heats, 

 *« which commence about the beginning of March, oblige them 

 " to flop. During this time a circuit of between 400 and 600 

 ♦* miles is generally made, the hunters bending their courfe to- 

 " wards the fkirts of the northern mountains, where the country 



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