ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. 
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the jungle, the Kookies prepare a number of balls, 
of the size of a man’s head, composed of a parti¬ 
cular kind of earth, salt, and cotton. They then drive 
their tame Gayals towards the wild ones, when the 
two herds soon meet and assimilate into one ; the males 
of the one attaching themselves to the females of the 
other, and vice versa. The Kookies now scatter their balls 
over such parts of the jungle as they think the herd 
most likely to pass, and watch its motions. The Gayals, 
on meeting these balls as they pass along, are attracted by 
their appearance and smell, and begin to lick them with 
their tongues ; and relishing the taste of the salt, and the 
particular earth composing them, they never quit the place 
until all the balls are consumed. The Kookies, having 
observed the Gayals to have once tasted their balls, pre¬ 
pare a sufficient supply of them to answer the intended 
purpose, and as the Gayals lick them up, they throw down 
more ; and it is to prevent their being so readily destroyed, 
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that the cotton is mixed with the earth and the salt. This 
process generally goes on for three changes of the moon, or 
for a month and a half, during which time the tame and 
the wild Gayals are always together, licking the decoy 
balls, and the Kookie, after the first day or two of their 
being so, makes his appearance at such a distance as not 
to alarm the wild ones. By degrees he approaches nearer 
and nearer, until at length the sight of him has become so 
familiar that he can advance to stroke his tame Gayals on 
the back and neck without frightening the wild ones. He 
next extends his hand to them, and caresses them also, at 
the same.time giving them plenty of his decoy balls to lick. 
Thus, in the short space of time mentioned, he is able to 
drive them, along with the tame ones, to his parrah, or 
