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THE STORY OF THE BUFFALO. 
attack a tiger or other dangerous animal without hesitation, and, although 
gentle with those they know and greatly attached to them, they are inclined 
to be hostile to strange men and strange animals. 
In earlier times the buffalo: was common throughout Europe, but the 
advance of civilization there as in this country later drove the animal back, 
until the present time it is restricted to a few of the most inaccessible mountain 
regions. 
COMMON INDIAN BUFFALO. 
The buffalo now living in Lithuania are specially protected by the Russian 
Government and are under the charge of a staff of keepers, but those of the 
Caucasus are thoroughly wild. Although living at a greater altitude, and 
thus exposed to' a more intense cold, the buffalo of the Caucasus are less 
thickly haired than are those of Lithuania. Buffalo' were abundant in the 
Black Forest in the time of Julius Caesar, and as late as the ninth and tenth 
