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animal, with a clumsy ungainly gait. The 

 flesh is coarse, and not held in much esteem, 

 even by the Puharries. 



The serow, is one of the few animals which 

 ever escape from wild dogs, when once hunted 

 by them. When brought to bay, it often 

 transfixes several with its sharp and formid- 

 able horns, before being pulled down; and 

 when its pursuers are few in number, killing 

 or maiming some, and showing a bold front 

 to the others, occasionally managing to keep 

 them off, till they give over the pursuit. This 

 however, can only be, when the serow stands 

 to bay, in some corner where they cannot 

 attack him in the rear, or many of them seize 

 him at once. Three or four wild dogs have 

 been found lying dead, where a pack has 

 hunted down a serow ; and others found 

 killed, without any trace left of the hunted 

 animal having shared the same fate. When 

 pursued by the villagers, their dogs are often 

 served in the same manner, if they attempt 

 to pull it down, before any of the men get 

 up. The serow, when close pressed, takes up 



