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which, they passed, was a mile in breadth, the herd 

 stretched, as thick as they could swim, completely from 

 one side to the other." And again they say : " If it bo 

 not impossible to calculate the moving multitude which 

 darkened the whole plains, we are convinced that 

 twenty thousand would be no exaggerated number." 

 Dr. James tells us that, " in the middle of the day 

 countless thousands of them were seen coming in from 

 every quarter to the stagnant pools ;" their paths, as he 

 informs us elsewhere, being " as frequent, and almost as 

 conspicuous, as the roads in the most populous parts of 

 the United States." 



These wild cattle defend themselves from the wolves 

 in the most admirable manner. When they hear their 

 savage enemies approaching they form themselves 

 adroitly into a circle. The weakest are left in the 

 middle, whilst the strongest are on the outside, and 

 present to their foes an impenetrable phalanx of horns. 

 The vignette is an illustration of this subject. 



Exciting stories of the buffalo hunt, both American 

 and African, will be seen in Catlin's North American 

 Indians, and Harris's Wild Animals and Sports of 

 Southern Africa. 



