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2 animal, with a clumsy ungainly gait. The
3 flesh is coarse, and not held in much esteem,
4 even by the Puharries. . |
5 " The serow, is one of the few animals ‘which
6 ever escape from wild dogs, when once hunted
7 by them. When brought to bay, it often
8 transfixes several with its sharp and formid-_
9 able horns, before being pulled down; and
10 when its pursuers are few in number, killing
11 or maiming some, and showing a bold |front
12 to the others, occasionally managing to keep.
13 them off, till they give over the pursuit. This
14 however, can only be, when the serow stands
15 to bay, in some corner where they cannot
16 attack him in the rear, or many of them seize
17 him at once. Three or four wild dogs have
18 been found lying dead, where a pack has
19 hunted down a serow; and others found
20 killed, without any trace left of the hunted
21 animal having shared the same fate. When.
22 pursued by the villagers, their dogs are often
23 served in the same manner, if they attempt
24 to pull it down, before any of the men get
25 up. The serow, when close pressed, takes up