56 BADGERS. 



the natives of Ramghur Badger-Ball, Ball 

 being the Hindoostanee word for Bear. Cap- 

 tain Williamson calls bears,, balloos, which I 

 believe is a corruption.* Badgers in India 

 are marked exactly like those in England, but 

 they are larger and taller, are exceedingly 

 fierce and will attack a number of dogs ; I 

 have seen dogs that would attack an hyena or 

 wolf, afraid to encounter them. 



There is also another species of animal in 

 Ramghur called Gour, a kind of wild bullock 

 of a prodigious size, not \vell known to Euro- 

 peans. I have never obtained a sight of them, 

 but have often seen the prints of their feet, the 

 impression of one of them covering as large a 

 space as a common china plate. According 

 to the account which I received from a number 

 of persons, they are much larger than the lar- 

 gest of our oxen, are of a light brown colour, 

 with short thick horns, and inhabit the thickest 

 covers ; they keep together in herds, and a 



* Quere! are not both these English words derived 

 from the Hindoostanee ? 



