JALIKAT. Taal. A sport in Madura in the south of India. It consists in loosing, either from a large pen or from a munber of stakes to which they are tied, a lot of cattle with cloths or hand kerchiefs tied to their horns, money being some times knotted in the cloths. When let go, the spectators shout and cheer, and a tremendous torn - toming is set up. This so far excites the animals that most of them go of at a gallop, and such of the spectators as wish to distinguish them selves in the eyes of their countrymen as swift runners and brave men, go after the cattle and 'strive to pull the cloths off the beasts' horns, the cloth and any valuable attached to it being the reward of the captor. This may be considered the national amusement of the people of Madura. It was practised at Trichinopoly, Puducottah, in parts of Tanjore, and was as much their passion as horse-racing is that of the people of England, or bull-baiting that of the people of Spain. The
rich ryots, zarnindars, and headmen are the great promoters of this kind of sport, by running their own cattle, etc. Directly they find that its practice is attended with danger of being tried for an accident, it is probable that they will voluntarily withdraw from actively continuing it, when it will greatly lose its interest and excite ment among the people, and they will then pro bably voluntarily give it up and take to or invent some more harmless amusement. Since the year 1855, a prohibition has existed against the sport being indulged in, and in 1859 certain village servants were dismissed by the presiding magis trate for permitting it within the limits of their jurisdiction.—Orme.