324 Observations made during a Tour in the U: nited States. [Nov. 1, 
volved. I had frequently been told that 
this animal’s anger was particularly ex- 
cited by any thing of a red colour, and 
poor Mungloo’s turban being of that hue, 
T took it off his head, and threw it behind 
me towards the butlalo ; this immedi- 
ately drew his attention from us, he toss- 
ed it up in the air, stamped upon, and 
spurned it with the most violent fury; the 
folds of the turban, by being tossed about, 
became disentanyled, and consequently 
éxposed a larger portion of the obnox- 
jous colour to his view; this added fresh 
fuel to his rage, and enabled us to reach 
the tope, and make a safe lodgment in a 
mangoe tree. When he had amused 
himself some time with the turban, he 
made towards our retreat: although we 
were safe enough in our elevated situa- 
tion, I could not entirely divest myself of 
apprehension, as I had been informed 
that these animals would keep a person 
in a tree for several hours, by remaining 
at the foot of it until some other object 
excited their attention: but I was not 
put to this inconvenience ; there hap- 
pened tobe grazingin the tope two un- 
fortunate asses, with their fore legs fas- 
tened to prevent them straying too far. 
The butfalo attacked them with the ut- 
most ferocity, and soon left them ex- 
tended on the ground; after this exploit 
he went out of the tope on the opposite 
side, and scampered across the plain to- 
wards a jungle at some distance off. I 
descended from the tree and returned to 
my boats, grateful for my escape, and 
now understood from some of my peo- 
ple that this part of the island of Cussim- 
buzar was famous for a breed of fierce 
wild buffalos, an animal certainly one of 
the most dangerous, as well as the most 
courageous in India: hardly any thing is 
gafe from his fury, and he will as fearlessly 
attack a royal tiger as he would a kid; 
the colour is of a dirty brown approach- 
ing to black, the horns large, and resu- 
pinated, the eyes very ‘ull and peculiarly 
savage, and the tongue rough as a file ; 
m short, his countenance exhibits such 
hideous traits of ferocity as to appal the 
Stoutest beholder; some of the males are 
neat six feet high, and large in propor- 
tion. They are not so dangerous in a 
herd as'when alone, and a female with a 
young calf is the most dangerous of any. 
‘A gentleman of my acquaintance had 
once a very narrow escape from one of 
thelatter description ; he was out on a 
hog-hnnting party, well mounted and 
armed with asspear. Having started a 
wild hog he pursued his game towards a 
neighbouring jungle over some very rough 
ground, when suddenly a cow buffalo 
with a young calf stopped his career. 
Aware of his inability to contend with so 
formidable an enemy, he endeavoured to 
effeet his escape, but the roughness of 
the ground impeded his horse’s progress, 
and gave the enemy a decided superio- 
rity in poimt of speed, He saw his dau- 
ger, and with a happy presence of mind 
wheeled his hurse round and buried his 
spear in the body of the calf, which im- 
mediately fell; the inoans of the little 
animal diverted the mother from her 
pursuit, her natural ferocity gave way to 
maternal affection, and her endeavours 
to assist her offspring enabled my friend 
to escape. 
(To be continued. ) 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
AVING heard that the Germans 
prepare coffee in a superior man- 
ner to other nations, I request that some 
of your foreign correspondents would 
favour your numerous readers with the 
mode of preparing in Germany that grate- 
ful beverage, 
Sept. 15, 1808. A.Z. 
——— 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
OBSERVATIONS made during @ FOUR 
through the UNITED STATES Of AMEs 
RICA.—NO. XXIV. 
SHALL now proceed to detail the ob- 
ject ofour expedition, and the progress 
made thereon. For the purpose of being 
more clearly understood, it willbe ne- 
cessary to take a short review of preced- 
ing circumstances. It is well known 
that Charles Il. of England, by charter, 
granted to the then colony of Connecti- 
cut, every part of the Continent of Ame~ 
rica, lying between 41 and 42 degrees of 
north latitude to the west of Rhode Is- 
land, This extensive grant necessarily 
interfered with other grants, derived from 
similar sources, conceded to New Jer- 
sey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Vir- 
ginia. Hence in former times a vast 
number of disputes, which were fre~ 
quently not settled without bloodshed. 
Connecticut, since she became a state, 
proceeded only to make good her title to 
that tract of country west of the Pennsyl- 
vania line, lying on the borders of Lake 
Erie, bounded then by that state to the 
east, the Miami of the Lake to the west, 
the centre of the lake to the north, and 
the line of Columbiana county on the 
Ohio to the south, including the en 
ce) 
