They are sometimes caught by being driven into the Saee river; but the young ones are said to refuse all food, and die soon, if not released.
Hindoos soon release them, from the religious dread that they may die in confinement.

The old ones sometimes live, and are considered valuable.

They are said to be finer in form than the tame cattle of the country; and from July to March, when grass abounds, and the country around is covered successively with autumn and spring crops, more fat and sleek.
The soil is good and strong, and the jungle which covers it very thick.

It is preserved by a family of Kumpureea Rajpoots, whose whole possessions, in 1814, consisted of nine villages.

By degrees they have driven out or murdered all the other proprietors, and they now hold no less than one hundred and fifty, for which they pay little or no revenue to Government.