How to pronounce “nilgai” in English

"They were his fellows: a Capuchin monkey, a young kangaroo, a magpie, which saved itself on one occasion from being worried by a dog by whistling the first three or four partsof 'Nix my Dolly, pals;' a nilgai, which is something of a horse creature, which he tried to ride, and which nearly killed him; a couple of mongooses, two young tigers, a couple ofmonkeys, an otter, and a small black bear. Most of these animals came to a violent end." I tried to find the actual paper, "An Old Soldier's Pets," and I could not find it on