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THE AFRICAN BUFFALO. 
Bulalus cafer. — Smith. 
PLATE XXIX. 
Bos cafer, Sparrman, &c. 
The Buffalo of the Cape has often been confound- 
ed with the animal of Southern Europe ; but it is 
entirely of a different form, and is a much more fe- 
rocious and dangerous animal, and has never yet been 
domesticated, or used for any laborious purpose. It 
is an animal, Burchel remarks, found no where but 
in the extra tropical part of Southern Africa, and is 
widely distinct from every other species of the ox tribe, 
and most remarkable by its horns, which, though not 
of more than ordinary or proportional length, are so 
unusually broad at their base, as to cover the whole 
forehead, and give to it the appearance of a mass of 
rock ; an appearance to which the ruggedness and 
unevenness of their surface greatly contribute. Its 
countena^ice exhibits a savage aud malevolent expres- 
sion. Its bulk far exceeds that of the ox, although 
its height lie not much greater ; but it is altogether 
more robust and strongly made. Its muzzle, when not 
young, is but thinly covered with short scattered black 
hair ; that on the under lip, and about the corners of 
