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I was permitted to keep thefe two for fome time ; 
which enabled me to defcribe them, and to get a cor- 
redt pidture made; and, with my brother’s affiftance to 
difTedt the dead animal, and preferve the (kin and 
fkeleton. Lord Clive has been fo kind to give me 
every help that he could furnifli me with, in making 
out their hiftory j fo has General Carnac, and fome 
other gentlemen. 
At all the places in India, where we have fettle- 
ments, they are rarities, brought from the diftant in- 
terior parts of the country, as prefents to Nabobs 
and great men. Lord Clive, General Carnac, Mr. 
Wallh, Mr. Watts, and many other gentlemen, 
who have feen much of India, tell me they never 
faw them wild. So far as I have yet found, Bernier 
is the only author who has even mentioned them 
In the 4th Vol. of his Memoires, he gives an account 
of a journey which he undertook, ann'. 1664, from 
Delhi, to the province of Cachemire, with the Mo- 
gul Aurengzeb, who went to that terreftrial paradife, 
as it is efteemed by the Indians, to avoid the heat 
of the fummer. In giving an account of the hunt- 
ing, which was the Emperor’s amufement in this 
journey, he defcribes, among others, that of le Nyl^ 
ghau } but without faying more of the animal, than 
* Since the reading of this paper, I have received the fol- 
lowing information from Dr. Maty. In the fourth Volume 
of Valentyn’s defeription of the Eaft Indies, publifticd in Low 
Dutch, 1727, under the article of Batavia, p. 231, I find 
amongft the uncommon animals kept at the caftle, this (hort 
indication, “ There was a beaft, of the fize and colour of a 
Danifh ox, but lefs heavy, pointed towards the mouth, afli- 
“ grey, and not lefs than an Elk, who^e name he bore.” It 
was a prefent from the Mogul. 
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