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SCENES IN INDIA. 
CHAPTER XII. 
WILD BEAST FIGHTS. JETTIES. — JUGGLERS. 
Next morning, we again repaired to the palace at 
an early hour ; the Rajah was ready to receive us, and 
after a slight refreshment we took our station in the 
gallery to witness the second day’s sports. We were 
prepared for an unusual sight. A lion was to be 
turned into the arena with an African buffalo, pur- 
chased by his Highness some months before, and which 
still remained uncommonly wild and fierce. The buf- 
falo of Africa is larger, and consequently more power- 
ful, than the buffalo of India, and it is said frequently 
to kill the lion when it encounters the latter in their 
native jungles, though the lion generally obtains the 
mastery, A conflict between them sometimes termi- 
nates in the death of both. Even in India the buf- 
falo is a formidable creature, and when one is eject- 
ed from the herd, it runs at everything that comes in 
its way, until destroyed either by its own violence, 
or by the superior strength of some wild animal. 
I once knew an instance of a buffalo, mad- 
dened by being expelled from the community of its 
fellows- — which is often the case, though from what 
circumstance is not, so far as I know, ascertained — 
and, fearless of the odds, which were evident in such 
