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pus may be said to be confined, the immense numbers of them are 

 imported into the central hilly region during the cold months to satisfy 

 the flesh-loving habits of the people of that region, who also occasion- 

 ally weave the long hair and fine wool of the Chyapu into appropriate 

 manufactures, as do the Magars, Rongbos and Gurungs of the Cachar; 

 and in an ceconomic point of view, I apprehend, that the Chyapu not 

 less than the Changra is an object well deserving the attention of all 

 those who aspire to benefit their kind or themselves by multiplying the 

 resources and materials of our stupendous manufacturing system. 



The Changra and Chyapu would flourish wonderfully in the driest 

 of our hilly counties, in Wales, England or Scotland ; and the sample 

 of Cashmeri workmanship out of the inner fleece of the Changra 

 which I sent to a great house in Lancashire, was declared to be a mar- 

 vel of beauty. 



3. Capra SindL — The Sinai or Sinjal of the Cachar. This large 

 and finely proportioned breed is the especial race of the Cachar, where 

 the Chyapu, though now abounding, is, no doubt a not very remote 

 immigrant from Tibet. But the Sinai now is, and has been for ages, 

 proper to the more northern parts of the sub-Himalayas, including the 

 whole of the northern region and a small part of the central region. In 

 these latitudes the Sinai abounds from the Kali to the Trisul or from 

 Kumoon to Nepaul proper ; and probably beyond these limits, both 

 west and east, though I know it not. The Magars, Gurungs, and Khas 

 too, rear the Sinai, whose ample hairy surcoat and fine sub-fleece, though 

 both inferior to those of the Changra and Chyapu, are yet capable of 

 being, and actually are, applied to the manufacture of ropes and of 

 blankets, serges and caps, and only not more efficiently turned to 

 ceconomic uses, because the Gurungs alone of the above named tribes 

 are wise enough not to affect contempt for arts mechanical ; for all arts, 

 in short, but the glorious one of war ! The Sinai measures from snout 

 to vent 4 to 4^ feet and 2} to 2\ feet high. Its head is by straight 

 measure 9^ to 10£ inches, and by curve 12 to 13. Ears 6 to 6£ 

 inches. Tail only, 5^ to 6. Tail and hair, 10 to 11 inches. Horns 

 by curve 1^ to 1^ feet. Basal girth 5 to 7 inches. Girth of the ani- 

 mal behind the shoulder 2} to 3 feet. The Sinai is a perfectly typical 

 goat, even more so than the Changra, having the horns less exces- 

 sively compressed and the keel more distinct. The long face is straight. 



