THE STORY OF THE BUFFALO. 
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centuries were sufficiently numerous in parts of Switzerland and Germany 
to be used as food. In a recent summary of the history of the species 1 ^ found 
that up to 1500 the European buffalo seems to have been common in Poland, 
where it was looked upon as royal game, and hunted in right royal manner 
by the king and nobility, as many as two* thousand or three thousand beaters 
being employed to drive the game. 
CAPE BUFFALOES. 
In spite of their size and bulk, the European buffalo' are active animals, 
and can both trot and gallop with considerable speed. In galloping the head 
is carried close to the ground and the tail high in the air. Generally they 
are sly and retiring in disposition, but in Lithuania an old bull has been 
known to take possession of a road and challenge all comers. The female dis- 
