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Lhe Little Indian Buffalo. 
T H I S Beaft is about the Bignefs of an Englijh Calf of fix 
Months old, and ftiaped pretty much like our Englijh Bull, 
excepting that it hath very fliort Horns, and a Bunch or Rifing on its 
Back between the Shoulders. I think it appears alfo to have the Legs 
fomething flenderer, though not longer than thofe of our Cattle. They 
are ufed in the Eajl- Indies for drawing their Coaches, inftead ofHorfes* 
The Nofe is pretty broad and flat, (bare of Hair, and moift on its 
Outfide) in which the Noftrils are placed ; the Lips (or Muzzle) have 
fome loofe flaring Hairs ; the Hair on the Sides of the Nofe is 
Whitifh ; the Circles round the Pupils of the Eyes are of a Hazel- 
Colour ; the Eyes are placed in longifli Plats of Black ; the Horns are 
Dusky and final], appearing but little above the frizzled Hair on the 
Top of the Head ; the Ears appear much larger and longer than the 
Horns, and are of a Flefh-Colour within Side, where they have no 
Hair. It is cover’d with pretty fliort fleek Hair all over ; the Head, 
Neck, Back, Tail and Sides, are of a bluifh Afh-Colour; the loole Skin 
on the Neck is White; the Belly is fo thinly cover’d with lightifh Hair 
as to {how the Flefh-Colour ; there pafies a white Line above the 
black Spot that furrounds the Eye, and a light brownifh Line on the 
under Side of the fame Spot. The Legs are of a light Colour, (be- 
coming gradually White near the Feet) fpotted and marked with Black, 
as exprefled in the Figure ; the Tuft at the End of the Tail is Black ; 
the Hoofs are formed like thofe of our Cattle, and are of a dusky-brown 
Colour. 
I faw one of thefe Buffalo's, kept fomeTimeGrazing in the Artillery -G round, London^ 
and obferving a Pi&ure after Nature of the fame Animal, which agreed exactly with 
it, in the Houfe of Sir Hans Shane , at Chelfea , I contented myfelf with engraving a 
I? late from thePi&ure, for I could not have made a better from Nature. Sir Ham 
told me his Picture was an Original from Nature, done by Order of the late Sir JoJiab 
Child, of JVanftead in Effex , Bart, The Creature was a Prefent to Sir Jofiab, from 
the Eajl-Indies . The Picture was afterwards given to Sir Hans Sloane , by Mrs. Caf- 
fandra W'tllughby^ afterwards Dutchefs of Chandois . It is one of their Domeftick Cattle 
in India . I have often heard Sir Hans Shane fay, that of the Shin-Bones of this Buffalo 
burnt, or half calcined, are made what in the Eajl-Indies are commonly called Ser - 
pentine Stones , being pretended to be taken out of theHeads of the Serpents, czMz&Cobras 
de Cabelo j to which they attribute a wonderful Property of extracting the Poifon, if 
applied to the Wound, and that being wafhed in Milk and dried, they are again fit 
for life* The- 
