GNU, nu, a Hottentot name of one of the two species of wildebeest. The wildebeests are African antelopes, forming the genus Con nochttes. The white-tailed gnu or *horned horse* (C. gnu) resembles, in form, partly the horse, partly the buffalo and partly the stag. It is as large as a middle-sized horse, and its neck is adorned with a stiff erect mane. On the forehead the face is covered with an oblong tuft of stiff black hairs, turned upward. Be neath the lower jaw is also a thick, shaggy beard. The legs are long and elegantly formed, like those of the stag; the space between the fore-legs is covered with long bushy hair. The tail is long and white. The horns are rough, and are enlarged at their base like those of the buffalo; they spring from the hinder part of the head, and, after bending forward beyond the eye, turn suddenly upward. Both sexes are furnished with these appendages. In the young animal they are perfectly straight, acquiring their flexure as the animal grows older. The gnu is affected by the sight of scarlet, like the buffalo or bull. When irritated, it expresses its resentment by plunging, curveting, tearing the ground with its hoofs and butting with its head. The flesh is juicy, agreeable and nourishing. This animal was formerly widespread and nu merous, roving in small bands with zebras, etc.; but it is now nearly or quite extinct.
Another species, larger than above, and known as the brindled gnu, whose habitat was north of the Zambesi, has still escaped extirpa tion in the interior. It is named C. taurinus, and has no long hair in front between the fore legs; there are dark stripes on the sides, and the tail is shorter and black. Consult Bryden (Nature and Sport in South Africa' (London 1897) • Lyddeker,
GOA, India, a Portuguese colony on the Malabar coast. It comprises the capital, Panjin, and is about 60 miles in length and extends in land to an average distance of about 30 miles. The area is about 1,469 square miles with a population of 515,772. In 1917-18 the estimated revenue of the colony was 1,591,022 escudos ($1,018,254.08)* and the expenditure 1,810,977 escudos ($1,159,025.28).* It has a large transit trade, the imports in 1916 amounting to 3,550,984 escudos ($2,272,629.76)* and the exports to 1,209,009 escudos ($773,765.76).* The principal exports are cocoanuts, fish, fresh and 'gaited, spices, caju-nuts, salt and copra. Goa was taken by Albuquerque in 1510 and has since been in the hands of the Portuguese.
GOA, India, city of the Malabar coast in the Portuguese colony of the same name, of co Based on the averaged value of the escudo for 1917 ($0.64) its normal value is $1.09 American currency).
which it was once the capital. It is the seat of a Catholic archbishopric, and is the primatial see of that Church in India. It contains a splendid cathedral, built early in the 17th cen tury. In the early days of the colony Goa was a thriving city with a population of 200,000 souls, but about the beginning of the 18th cen-. tury cholera epidemics became frequent and nearly all the Portuguese abandoned it and settled in Panjim, or New Goa, which has since then been the seat of the colonial administra tion. Consult Baden-Powell, B. H., (The Vil lages of Goa in the Early Sixteenth Century' (London 1900), and Bruce, Henry, (Letters from Malabar and on the Way' (New York 1909).
GOA, a Tibetan gazelle.