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that the Emperor fometimes kills them in fucli 
numbers, as to diflribute quarters of them to all his 
Omrachs; which fliews that they were there wild, 
and in plenty, and efteemed good or delicious food. 
This agrees with the rarity of thefe animals at 
Bengal, Madrafs, and Bombay : for Cachemire is the 
moft northern province of the Empire ; and it was 
on the march from Delhi to that place, that Bernier 
faw the Emperor hunt them. 
Name. The word Nyl-ghau^ for thefe are the 
component letters correfponding to the Perhan, though 
pronounced as if it were written NeeUgaw^ fignifies 
a blue cow, or rather a bull, Ga%v being mafeuline ; 
and the male animal of that name has a good title 
to the appellation, as well from the likenefs he bears 
in fome parts to that fpecies of cattle ; as from 
the bluifh tindt which is very difcernible in the 
colour of his body; but this is by no means the 
cafe with the female, which has a near refemblance, 
as well in colour as in form, to our red deer. The 
Nyl-ghaus which have been brought to England 
have been moft, if not all, of them received from 
Surat or Bombay ; and they feem to be lefs uncom- 
mon in that part of India, than in Bengal ; which 
gives room for a conjedture that they may be indi- 
genous perhaps in the province of Guzarat, one 
of the moft Weftern and moft conftderable of the 
Hinduftan empire, lying to the Northward of Surat, 
and ftretching away to the Indian ocean, 
A gentleman * who has been long in India, and 
has an extenfive acquaintance there, has written to 
General Carnac, who likew-fe favoured me with the pre- 
cedinji article uoon the oasne of the ajiicnal. 
his 
