THE AFRICAN BUFFALO. 



Bubalus cafer. SMITH. 



PLATE XXIX. 

 Bos cafer, Sparrman t &c. 



THE Buffalo of the Cape has often been confound- 

 ed with the animal of Southern Europe ; but it is 

 entirely of a different form, and is a much more fe- 

 rocious and dangerous animal, and has never yet been 

 domesticated, or used for any laborious purpose. It 

 is an animal, Burchel remarks, found no where but 

 in the extra tropical part of Southern Africa, and is 

 widely distinct from every other species of the ox tribe, 

 and most remarkable by its horns, which, though not 

 of more than ordinary or proportional length, are so 

 unusually broad at their base, as to cover the whole 

 forehead, and give to it the appearance of a mass of 

 rork ; an appearance to which the ruggedness and 

 nnevenness of their surface greatly contribute. Its 

 countenance exhibits a savage aud malevolent expres- 

 sion. Its bulk far exceeds that of the ox, although 

 its height be not much greater ; but it is altogether 

 more robust and strongly made. Its muzzle, when not 

 young, is but thinly covered with short scattered black 

 hair ; that on the under lip, and about the corners of 



