RUMINANT QUADRUPEDS. 9] 
Brahmin Bull, Fig. 75, is a native of India, and is remark- 
able for a large fatty hump above the shoulders. In all 
Southern Asia and Eastern Africa this animal supplies 
the place of the common Ox, and is supposed to have 
come from the same origin, instead of being another spe- 
cies. The Hindoos treat it with great reverence and at- 
tention. They allow it to go about the streets, which it 
does with great familiarity, even walking into shops, 
helping itself to sweetmeats and other articles, and re- 
senting the slightest affronts with a peevish thrust of the 
horns. But while the bull is thus honored, the ox is 
treated without mercy, being urged on in its labor by 
the cruel goad. The Brahmin cow is treated more kind- 
ly than the ox, but is not reverenced as the bull is. 
158. The true Buffaloes belong to a genus of this fam- 
ily. They are found in Asia and Africa, and to some lit- 
tle extent in the south of Europe. The common species, 
Fig. 76 (p. 92), was originally a native of India, where it 
has long been domesticated, and used like the Ox. Its 
hide is very strong, and harness is made from it. 
159. The American Bison, Fig. 77 (p. 92), improperly 
called a Buffalo, is found in immense herds in the prairies 
