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THE STORY OF THE BUFFALO. 



attack a tiger or other dangerous animal withont hesitation, and, although 

 gentle with those they know and greatly attached to them, they are inclined 

 to be hostile to strange men and strange animals. 



In earlier times the buffalo was common throughout Europe, but the 

 advance of civilization there as in this country later drove the animal back, 

 until the present time it is restricted tO' a few of the most inaccessible mountain 

 regions. 



I'lyyffliiliiiili'ili 



COMMON INDIAN BUFFALO. 



The buffalo now living in Lithuania are specially protected by the Russian 

 Government and are under the charge of a staff oi keepers, but those of the 

 Caucasus are thoroughly wild. Although living at a greater altitude, and 

 thus exposed to a more intense cold, the buffalo of the Caucasus are less 

 thickly haired than are those of Lithuania. Buffalo^ were abundant in the 

 Black Forest in the time of Julius Caesar, and as late as the ninth and tenth 



