BUFFALO 



BOS CAFFER 



Swahili : M'eogo. Masai : Ol-laro and Ol-osowan 



THIS is an animal which I must ap- 

 proach, as regards its habits, with great 

 diffidence, as this is only my own small 

 experience, and other people may 

 know so much more about them. It is true I 

 have had the most exciting morning of my life 

 with them, as I shall show in a sketch at the end 

 of this, and that is, to all intents and purposes, 

 one of very few encounters compared with the 

 chances I have had of observing the habits of 

 other game animals. 



The buffalo stands about fifteen hands high, 

 and has a thickish black skin covered sparsely 

 with black hairs. His legs are very short indeed 

 compared with his height, so that his bulk is 

 enormous. The skin under the neck is abnorm- 

 ally thick, on account, I suppose, of the fact that 

 he has to make his way through the thickest of 

 thick bush, which he does with his head up. 

 When he charges, on the other hand, his head 

 goes down, and the enormous horny bosses on 



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