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in the same domestic services ; the make and the turn of their 

 bodies so much alike, that it acquires a close attention to distin- 

 guish them : and yet after all this, no two animals can be more 

 distinct, or seem to have greater antipathies to each other. 



1 Buffon. 

 he sometimes carried it with the paper against his breast, and the crimson 

 colour in front. On a sudden, he perceived at a considerable distance a herd 

 of grazing buffaloes throw out signs of defiance, and come down in full gal. 

 lop towards him with their tails up, and evincing the most tumultuous 

 frenzy. Not suspecting the cause, he paused and dropped his hand, when the 

 whole troop stopped and looked about, as if at a loss ; he went on, and un- 

 consciously raising the table again, brought the red colours in sight. They 

 set off a second time towards him, but guessing the cause, he turned the ob. 

 noxious colours towards his body, and was suflered to proceed unmolested. 



The Cape Buffalo. {Caffer.) This species is designated among the Hot- 

 tentots by the name of Qu'araho. It is distinguished by dark and rugous 

 horns spreading horizontally over the summit of the head in the shape of a 

 scalp, with the beams bent down laterally, and the points turned up. They 

 are from eight to ten inches broad at the base, and divided only by a slight 

 groove, dark coloured, extremely ponderous, cellular near the root, and five 

 feet long, measured from tip to tip along the curves. The incisor teeth are 

 almost always loose in the gums of the adult animal, whose height is about 

 five fe€t six inches at the shoulder, and the length from nose to tail about 

 nine feet ; the legs are short and strongly knit ; the dewlap is rather consi- 

 derable ; the ears large, hanging open ; on each side of the chin and nether 

 jaw, there is a beard of stiff hairs ; the hide extremely thick, hard and black, 

 almost naked in old animals, and quite naked, excepting some distichous 

 hairs at the end. In younger beasts, a scattered brown hair covers the neck, 

 back, and belly ; and in the young heifer, the colour is brown, black, the hair 

 more abundant, and a sort of standing mane four inches long, spreads from 

 behind the horuH, aluiigtlie neck, down the spine to the tail, darker than the 

 rest of the hair, almost black. At that age, the horns are only six inches 

 long, thirteen inches distant from tip to tip, pale in colour, originating at the 

 eide of the frontal crest, and rising obliquely upwards, with some slight indi- 

 cation of wrinkles. The forehead and nuccha are covered with loose black 

 hair, as also the throat, dewlap, and top of the tail, the shin bones and pas. 

 terns furnished with curling woolly dark hair. The head is one foot long, 

 and the length of the animal, from nose to tail, five feet seven inches ; the 

 tail one foot. At that age, there is so great a dissimilarity froio the adult, as 

 to give it the appearance of a different species, for which, indeed, it was 

 taken in the specimen of Mr BurcheU, had not a note within the skin es. 

 tablished the species. 



There is some doubt whether Pliny alludes to this species in his description 

 of the fierce African wild oxen which were caught in pit-fails • : the Araho 

 is truly a terrible and ferocious beast, possessed of a tremendous billowing 



» He gives it blue eyes, and rufous hair. Chap. xxi. I. viii., but it seems 

 confounded with a species of bison. If Captain Clappertou's notice be refer- 

 red to Ji. Caj^er, it is found alfio in Borneo, under the name uf Zamouse, the 

 JiaUc Yumuf. 



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