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The Little Indian Buffalo. 
THIS Bead is about the Bignefs of an Englijh Calf of fix 
Months old, and fhaped pretty much like our Englijh BulJ a 
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, indead ofHorfes. 
The Nofe is pretty broad and flat, (bare of Hair, and moiA on its 
Outfide) in which the NoArils are placed; the Lips (or Muzzle) have 
forne loofe daring 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 longifh Plats of Black; the Horns are 
Dusky and fmall, 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 fhort fleek Hair all over ; the Head, 
Neck, Back, Tail and Sides, are of a bluifh Afh-Colour; the loofe Skin 
on the Neck is White; the Belly is fo thinly cover’d with lightifh Hair 
as to fhow the Flefh-Colour ; there pafles 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 expreffed 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-Ground ^London , 
and obferving a Picture after Nature of the fame Animal, which agreed exactly with 
it, in the Houfe of Sir Hans Sloane , at Chelfea> I contented myfelf with engraving a 
Plate from the Picture, for I could not have made a better from Nature. Sir Hans 
told me his Picture was an Original from Nature, done by Order of the late Sir jfojiah 
Child , of Wanjlead in Effex, Bart. The Creature was a Prefent to Sir Jofiah , from, 
the Eajl-Indies. The Picture was afterwards given to Sir Hans Sloane , by Mrs. Caf- 
fandra Willughby , afterwards Dutcnefs of Chandois. It is one of their Domeftick Cattle 
in India. I have often heard Sir Hans Sloane 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, call edCobras: 
de Cabelo ; to which they attribute a wonderful Property of extracting the Poifon, if 
applied to the Wound, and that being walked in Milk and dried, they are again fit 
for Ufe, The 
