The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1882-08-06
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OF all the game followed by sportsmen in
the East, ] consider the buffalo to be the most
dangerous and the most difficult TO kill. The
nature Of the beast is morose and treachcrous,
and an old bull will often lie in wait and at
tack man or beast without having received
any provocatiOn, There are two wild varie-
ties, one with long straight horns, the other
with curved ones, the latter often with the
forehead sFming a perfect circle, and the
points being within a few inches Of each
other. The forehead is narrow and convex;
head long IN proportion TO its breadth; horns
large and black. General color dark slate
color hair scanty and black, moderately
developed dorsnl ridge which terminates
about the middle of the back; below the
knees and hooks the color is Lighter than the
rest Of the body, often inclining TO dirty
cream. The eye Is full and dark, with vim
dictive expression. They are possessed of
immense strength, ranking in that respect
after elephants aud rhinoceroses. They can
force their way through long grass, reeds, and
wild cardamom jungle with almost as much
ease as an elephant, and their speed is equal
to that of a carthorse. They carry immense
horns; but although there are still thousands
in Assam and Burmah, very large horns are
seldom seen. Out of some hundreds killed,
the largest bulls horns measured across the
forehead round the sweep ii feet i inches,
and cows IL feet s inches, but | have
known them killed with horns over IL
feet; while ono head, which | gave TO
TO the late Earl Of Mayo, was - feet s inches
round the circumference, and 6 feet and
6 inches between the tips. The leviathan
COW was shot by a native from a tree, and
secured the head for five rupees AS IL Is
the largest on record, II would have been
cheap for ESQ for a museum. There is sin
gle bulls horn in the British Museum 6l feet
long. Col. Comber had one horn 6 feet .
inches long given to him by the late Semin-
dar of Luckeepore. | once saw half-tamc
albino COW at Tseeben, near Tongho, in Bur
nah, which had the longest horns | have
ever seen; when she threw back her head
they extended along the whole length of the
body to beyond the root Of the tail Each
horn must have measured ~ to feet but
she was so savage that even her owner dared
not play any tricks on her or even handle
her beyond milking her once day. The
man was Karen. coveted her head, and
offered fifty rupees for her, which was more
than her value, as she was somewhat an
cient but the man, seing how anxious was
TO become her purchaser, asked such an ex-
orbitant price that declined to be victimized.
The largest bull ever measured was IL feet
to the root of the tail; tail, q feet height,
g feet inches; horns, from one tip to
the other, IL feet 4 inches; between
the tips, 8 feet; thickness of the horn
at base, clear of skin, % inches. shot
bull in Burmah with horns nothing unusual
as TO length, but OF the enormous girth of q
inches each. II took some "a bullets to lay
him low. lie fought viciously and stub.
bornly, and rendered one of my elephants
horS 6u combat for four months from the severe
injuries inflicted on it, The London Eeld