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to measure the other kulgha (bull-bison), as I think it 

 is the largest I have ever killed." 



So saying we retraced our steps to the big bull, 

 and, with the aid of a straight bamboo, I took the 

 exact dimensions and entered them in my note-book 

 as follows : 



"Perpendicular height from the bottom of the 

 hoof to the top of the shoulder, not following the 

 curve of the body, 6 feet 4 inches; height to the 

 top of hump, 6 feet 9 inches ; length of body from 

 the tip of nose to insertion of tail, 1 1 feet 4 inches ; 

 length of tail, 3 feet 4 inches ; girth of body, 9 feet 

 3 inches; girth of fore-arm, 2 feet 10 inches; girth 

 of neck, 4 feet 10 inches ; breadth of forehead, 2 feet 

 5 inches ; circumference round base of horns, 1 foot 

 9 inches ; length of horns, 1 foot 4 inches ; colour, 

 black along the back, light dun under the belly and 

 inside the thighs, the legs below the knees and hocks 

 dirty white ; the cows much less in proportion, with 

 hardly any hump or dewlap, the head smaller and 

 more graceful." 



"Well, Hal," exclaimed B , as we finished 



measuring the gigantic animal; "I think there are 

 few finer fellows than this even in the whole Wynaad 

 Jungle : he is fully two inches higher than any we 

 have hitherto met with, and both you and I have 

 tumbled over a good few in our time too. What a 

 farce to compare the American buffalo with this 



