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escaped his reach, and tossed him into the air with such 

 force, that the body fell dreadfully mangled into a cleft 

 of the tree. The buffalo ran round the tree once or twice, 

 apparently looking for the man, until weakened by the loss 

 of blood, he again sunk on his knees. The rest of the party 

 recovering from their confusion, then came up and despatch- 

 ed him, though too late to save their comrade, whose body 

 was hanging in the tree quite dead." 



THE ARNEE. 



THIS animal, which is an inhabitant of various parts of 

 India, north of Bengal, far exceeds in size any of the cattle 

 tribe that has hitherto been discovered it being from 

 twelve to fifteen feet in height. The horns, which are full 

 two feet in length, are erect and semilunar, flattened, and 

 annularly wrinkled, with smooth, round, approaching points. 

 The arnee is seldom seen within the European settlements; 

 but a very young one was picked up alive, in the Ganges, 

 some years ago, which was as big as an immensely large 

 bullock, and weighed nearly three quarters of a ton. A 

 British officer, who found one in the woods in the country 

 above Bengal, describes it as a bold and daring animal, 

 and its form as seeming to partake of the horse, the bull, 

 and the deer. Some of the native princes are said to keep 

 arnees for parade, under the name of fighting bullocks. 



