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dropped in his tracks. I found my first shot had hit him in the 

 neck, and must have paralysed him, as he could not move his fore- 

 legs, though he could kick with his hind ones. My second shot 

 was a wild one, and had only broken a hind fetlock. The rest of the 

 herd ran in all directions at the shot, and then getting together, 

 made for the top of the valley. As soon as I saw that the big bull 

 could not get away, I started after them, and managed to get two 

 more bulls. 



The big bull was really a very fine beast, his forehead covered 

 with curly grey hair. He measured just over 15 hands i\ in. as 

 he lay. I put a stick as upright as I could against his withers, and 

 measured to his heel. 



In 1866 another sportsman managed to evade the Tartars, 

 and crossing the Sutlej beyond Niti, found a herd of eighty yak, 

 out of which he shot a bull and three cows, one of the latter 

 being piebald. 



There is a quaint story from Nepal, that, during the war 

 between the Nepalese and the Thibetans, Jung Bahadur, 

 finding his army very short of food, referred the case to the. 

 chief priests in Khatmandu, who decided that yak were deer, 

 and not cattle at all, as their tails were different, and so might 

 safely be killed and eaten by the pious Nepalese. 



XXI. BUFFALO (Bubalus ami} 



Native names generally : ''Ban Bhains,' ' Arnd' the male, 

 ' Ami' (he female ; in Bengal, ' Mains ' 



The buffalo is found in Nepal, and extends eastward through 

 Assam to Burmah. It is plentiful in the Sunderbuns, in the 

 Central Provinces, and in Ceylon, but is not found, according 

 to Sanderson, in Southern India. Forsyth gives 80 as the ex- 

 treme western limit of buffaloes in Central India, and says that 

 they are not found north of the Nerbudda river. 



The wild buffalo only differs from the tame one in being 

 slightly larger and more uniform in colour (tame ones are of 

 many shades, and have often a good deal of white about them, 

 in fact albinos are not uncommon), and in having regular white 



