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Updated: May 17, 2025
The little creature which thus dwelt in the recollection of the old man, as one of the memorials of his long captivity, is the small "musk deer" so called in India, although neither sex is provided with a musk-bag.
Its great peculiarity is the musk-bag or gland situated nearly under the tail; this is a projecting and valued gland, which secretes the musk, and is used medicinally by the Cingalese, on which account it is valued at about six shillings a pod.
On this Humáyún ordered the musk-bag to be brought, and, having broken it on a china plate, he called his nobles, and divided it among them, as the royal present in honour of his son's birth.... This event, adds Jouher, 'diffused its fragrance over the whole habitable world. The birth of the son brought no immediate good fortune to the father.
"On thy head be it if thou can'st not keep thy young fighting cock in order 'twill be all over the town by midnight!" Foster-father did not often let his temper get the better of his prudence, but he could not resist saying mildly: "Kingship is like the musk-bag, friend, that was broken at the royal child's birth. It diffuses its perfume over the habitable world, and none can mistake it."
It is of a dun color, with round black spots distributed uniformly over the body. The tiny musk-deer, so called, though it has no musk-bag or scent about it of that pungent nature, is indigenous to Ceylon. There is a stuffed specimen in the Colombo museum, but the author did not happen to see one alive.
It must be celebrated otherwise, and for all we are so poor, we can yet have ceremonial. When the child was born were we not in direst danger? Such danger that all his royal father could do in honor of the glad event was to break a musk-bag before his faithful followers as sign that the birth of an heir to empire would diffuse itself like perfume through the whole world?
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