[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Les six voyages de Jean-Baptiste Tavernier](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier) › [Travels in India (Ball)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball) › 106.3 # Travels in India (Tavernier) 106.3 Travels in India (Ball) 106.3 - **Language:** English ### [106.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.106.3) The odour from the skin of this animal, which I took to Paris, was so strong that it was impossible to keep the skin in my rooms, as it caused headache to all the people in the house, and it was necessary to put it in a garret, where at length my servants cut off the bladder — this did not prevent its always retaining something of the odour. You do not begin to meet with this animal till about the 56° of latitude; but at 60° it is in great abundance, the country there being well wooded. It is true that in the months of February and March, after these animals have suffered from famine in their own country on account of the snow, which falls in abundance to depths of 10 or 12 feet, they come south to 44° and 45°, to eat the corn and new rice, and it is at this time that the peasants entrap them, in snares which they set, and kill them with arrows and blows of sticks. Some persons have told me that the deer are so thin and feeble in consequence of the hunger from which they have suffered, that many allow themselves to be captured by coursing. There must be an enormous number of these animals, as each has but one bladder, the largest of which is ordinarily of the size of a hen’s egg, and only yields half an ounce of musk. It sometimes requires even three or four of these bladders to make an ounce. - [Previous: 106.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.106.2) - [Next: 106.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.106.4) - [Up: 106](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.106) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.106.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.106.3) · Pramāṇa