CHAPTER XXIX. 
BUFFALO AND ANTELOPES OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
AFTER treating of Behemoth, I suppose buffalo and 
antelopes must be classed as small game, although the 
Buffalo is represented as a larger animal than our Bison, 
and the Eland, which is classed as an antelope, “not 
unfrequently attains the height of nineteen hands, and 
weighing two thousand pounds!’ Tolerable specimens these 
of small game for any country! but we have to admit that 
all things are comparative, and where the giraffe of nineteen 
feet is the standard in height and the elephant of bulk, the 
processes in dimuendo must necessarily be slow. 
This South African is undoubtedly the true Buffalo, and 
is in some respects individually a more formidable animal 
than that known by the same name upon our plains. Harris 
speaks of a specimen of the African buffalo slain by him, 
standing sixteen hands and a half at the shoulder; his 
ponderous horns, measuring four feet from tip to tip, like a 
mass of rock, overshadowing his small, sinister, gray eyes, 
imparting a cunning gloom and vindictive expression to its 
head, which was of such weight that one powerful man could 
with difficulty lift it into the wagon; Cumming, however, 
surpasses him, as usual, since it required the utmost strength 
of two men to lift the head of a similar monster he slew! 
He says— 
I ordered the Bechuanas to release the dogs; and spurring 
Colesberg, which I rode for the first time since the affair 
with the lioness, I gave chase. The buffaloes crossed the 
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