CHAPTER VIII 



THE BUFFALO 

 By H. A. BRYDEN 



FIVE well ascertained species of buffalo are to be 

 found in Africa, all of them more or less closely 

 allied. These are the Cape, the Abyssinian, the 

 Senegambian, the Congo, and the Lake Chad buffalo. 

 The Cape buffalo (Bos coffer), with which I will first 

 deal, has much the widest distribution, and is by far 

 the best known to sportsmen. It is, beyond question, 

 one of the finest sporting beasts to be found in Africa, 

 and from its great size and strength, and the fact that 

 when wounded it is one of the most dangerous of all 

 game animals to follow up and vanquish, it will 

 always possess peculiar attractions for the keen hunter. 

 Formerly to be found in immense herds in many 

 parts of the Dark Continent, the Cape buffalo has 

 from various reasons declined greatly in numbers 



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