BUFFALO. 
Oxen ; and having, also, naked and black 
skins, like the Elephant, they are there called 
Elephant-Bulls. 
Sonini infoi'ms us, that the Buffalo is an ac- 
quisition of the modern Egyptians, who re- 
ceived it from Persia. He describes these 
Egyptian Buffaloes as partaking of the very 
remarkable gentleness of other domestic ani- 
mals, and only retaining a few sudden and oc- 
casional caprices : nor did he ever observe that 
the red colour, so generally worn in the dresses 
of that country, at all affected them. Such is 
their attachment to water, that he has seen 
them remain in it the whole day. 
