BUFFALO, 
groes of Guinea, and the Indians of Malabar, 
where the BufFaloes are very numerous, are 
fond of hunting them. They never attack 
these animals openly : but watch for them, on 
the tops of trees ; or lie hid in thickets, through 
which the BufFaloes cannot pass, on account 
of their horns. These people esteem the flesh 
of the Buffalo : and they draw great profits 
from his skin, and horns ; which are harder, 
and better, than those of the Ox." 
Pennant tells us, that BufFaloes, are used, in 
Italy, as well as in India, and Africa, for the 
dairy, and draught ; and that, in some parts of 
India, they are also used for the saddle. 
The Buffalo, in general, appears to be of an 
almost uniform blackish colour; with the hair 
on the top of the forehead, and that at the tip 
of the tail, and even on the insides of the limbs, 
sometimes a yellowish white : T'ravellers have^ 
indeed, occasionally met with them white, 
grey, and reddish. At the Cape of Good Hope, 
their common colour is said to be a dark red, 
with intermixtures of black. The Abyssinian 
BufFaloes are twice the size of our largest 
Oxen ; 
