THE LIVING WORLD. 
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party engaged in “ pig-sticking,” was severely prodded by an intrusive buffalo. 
A celebrated traveller having gone to batlie was suddenly charged by a buffalo 
and knocked over the bank. Even this did not satisfy the angry brute, for 
clambering down to where the traveller lay between two narrow ledges of 
rocks, it first butted at him ineffectually, and then licked his legs with his 
rasping tongue, finally desisting solely because the traveller had the self-con¬ 
trol to simulate death even while being sand-papered. 
The Hon. W. H. Drummond tells of shooting 1 a solitary buffalo bull in 
the forehead and then hastily climbing a tree. From this point of advantage 
he saw the buffalo charge wildly 
hither and thither, and finally start 
off for parts unknown, irritated but 
unharmed. He followed in its track 
all day long, and finally came upon 
it in the jungle, and having taken 
the risk of entering a great cane- 
brake escaped by a quick single 
shot, which happened to touch the 
buffalo in the right spot. Living¬ 
stone and Baker tell of the great 
skill of the native aggageers, who 
pursue and hamstring with their 
swords elephants, buffaloes and other 
dangerous game. 
The Musk Ox, or Musk 
Sheep (Ovibos moschatus ), can be 
successfully hunted only by stalk¬ 
ing, but the venison-like taste of 
its flesh attracts the hunter. It 
has very acute sight and hearing, 
and is exceedingly nimble as a 
leaper. It runs in herds of from 
ten to twenty, and when pasturing 
always posts sentinels. It is from eleven and 
a half to twelve and a half hands in height, 
and its coat is soft, long and dark brown in 
color. Its eyes express gentleness, but during 
the rutting season it is exceedingly quarrelsome 
and vindictive, and uses its sharp-pointed horns 
with great effect. The mothers are very zeal¬ 
ous in caring for their young, and while com¬ 
pelled to conceal them, keep a very watchful 
eye upon any person or animal approaching the place of their concealment. 
A FIGHT IN THE FOREST. 
UNGULATES.—ANTELOPES. 
The Eland of the Steppes (.Antilope oreas) wanders in company with a 
mate or as one of a large band. It equals the horse in stature, and its huge 
antlers, starting from the head. at a right angle, suddenly curve upward and 
terminate in a broad palm, which finally gives way to ^deep indentations lying 
