THE HUFFALO, 



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Crossing rivers. 



duced into some of the countries of Europe, 

 where they are now become naturalized. They 

 have been perfectly domesticated in Italy, where 

 they are employed in agriculture; and butter 

 and cheese are made from their milk. 



In many of the Oriental countries, as well as 

 in Italy, buffaloes are domesticated; and large 

 herds of them may be seen, every morning and 

 evening, crossing the Tigris and Euphrates. 

 They proceed, all wedged against each other, the 

 herdsman riding on one of them, sometimes 

 standing upright, and sometimes couching down ; 

 and if any of the exterior ones are out of order, 

 stepping lightly from back to back, to drive 

 them forward. 



A remarkable circumstance relative to these 

 animals, is related by those who completed the 

 Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, begun by Captain 

 Cook. When at Pulo Condore they procured 

 eight buffaloes, which were to be conducted to 

 the ships, by ropes put through their nostrils and 

 round their horns ; but when these were brought 

 within sight of the ship's crew, they became so 

 furious that some of them tore out the cartilage 

 of their nostrils, and set themselves at liberty; 

 and others broke down even the shrubs to which 

 it was frequently found necessary to fasten them. 

 AH attempts to get them on board would have 

 proved unsuccessful, had it not been for some 

 children whom the animals suffered to approach 

 them, and by whose management their rage was 



