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NATURAL HISTORY. 



BUBALUS. (Gr. Eov(3a?ioe, a Buffalo.) 



Buffelus, the Buffalo. 



The ASIATIC BUFFALO is a large and powerful animal with 

 enormous horns. It closely resembles the domestic ox, but 

 is larger and stronger. Its strength is so great that it is a 

 formidable enemy even to the tiger. Captain Basil Hall 

 gives an account of a battle between a buffalo and a tiger. 

 The tiger, however, seemed to have been alarmed at the very 

 unusual scene into which he had been transferred ; but the 

 readiness of the buffalo to attack, proves that it did not fear 

 the tiger. 



" We were promised a grand day's sport one afternoon, 

 when a buffalo and a tiger were to be pitted against each 

 other. The buffalo entered the ring composedly enough ; 

 but after looking about him, turned to one side, and rather 

 pettishly, as if he had felt a little bilious, overturned a vessel 



