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without reproducing, except one, a cow, which bore a calf by con¬ 
nection with an Indian bull. 
Though naturally not intractable in temper, yet, soured by the 
impatient and injudicious treatment of his attendants, during a long 
voyage, it soon became dangerous to suffer this bull to range at liberty 
abroad. He had at all times been observed to bear a marked hostility 
towards horses; and, from the accidental circumstance, of a crooked 
nail’s remaining in his horn, after the knob which it had fastened, had 
been rubbed off, he happened to gore a valuable coach-horse belong¬ 
ing to Mr. Hastings, which had the range of the same pasture with 
him, and, lacerating the entrails, occasioned his death. After this, 
to prevent further accidents, he was kept alone within a secure 
enclosure. 
An Engraving of this Bull, from a picture in4he possession of Mr. 
Hastings, painted from the life by Stubbs, is annexed; the landscape 
was taken from a scene on the frontier of Bootan, by Mr. Davis. 
Our road this day lay at no great distance from the river, which rolled 
all the way, recoiling over its rocky bed a perfect cataract; its spray 
filling the atmosphere with vapour, and rendering it extremely chill. 
This region was crowded with vegetation, the offspring of damp and 
obscurity. Amongst the largest of the trees, hollies made the most 
conspicuous show, and well accorded with the dark and dismal aspect 
of the surrounding objects. I never encountered a deeper gloom : the 
river was seldom visible, but its hoarse roar was every where to be 
heard. On each side, towered steep and rugged rocks, whose high 
summits shut out the rays of the sun during every hour of the day, 
