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THE SAVAGE WORLD. 
is 
excitement of danger, 
herd is attacked the 
form a solid square 
useful as a domestic 
of man’s daily 
vice 
through some cause grown bald on its back, or as if some prairie fire had 
burned away the middle of a hairy spread, or some new fashion in the 
tonsorial art had brought into vogue an inverted pompadour for animals. 
The yak is hunted for its flesh, hair and hide, and the sport has all the 
for when excited the bulls are very ferocious. When a 
calves are gathered together while the bulls and cows 
around them. But the yak is quite as necessary and 
animal, and readily adjusts itself to the laborious ser- 
life. It supplies the family with a plentiful quantity 
and an excellent quality of pure milk; it is strong and enduring as a beast 
of burden; and it is able to forage for its own subsistence and to be satisfied 
-■■■ —-———--- with “plain liv¬ 
ing” even though 
it may not indulge 
in “high think¬ 
ing.” There are 
castes among yaks, 
so that while the 
beautiful, white- 
trimmed patrician 
holds his head 
high in air, the 
common or plough 
yak recognizes the 
lack of gorgeous 
apparel and great 
stature, and in 
humility walks 
with head bent 
down: 
There are 
two species of the 
African buffalo, 
the Short-Horn 
Buffalo (Bubalus 
bujfelus ), and the 
Buffalo of Caf- 
fraria f Bubalus 
caffer)] the former is brown in its coloring, the latter black. The Asiatic 
Buffalo (Bos bubalus ) is the type most commonly known to all but African 
travellers. The celebrated Livingstone describes methods of hunting the 
African buffalo, which are even more wantonly destructive than the unsports- 
man-like warfare which has rendered almost extinct the American bison. 
The natives are in the habit of digging covered pits, and then beating up 
the country for miles around to drive first into corrals, and then into the 
pits, everything that has life, and which does not succeed in breaking through 
and making its escape. These corrals open into deep pits, in which are planted 
sharpened stakes, upon which the animals impale themselves. The method of 
hunting among the Chinese emperors omits the pitfalls, but is equally secure 
GORED BY A WOUNDED BUFFALO. 
