Morning journal and courier., 1882-07-29
The Buffalo of the East.

From the London tieid.J
 Of all the game followed by sportsmen in the East I consider the buffalo to be the most dangerous and the most difficult to kill. The nature of the beast is morose and treacherous, and an old bull will often lie in wait and attack man or beast without having received any provocation. There arc two wild varieties, one with long straight horns and the other with curved ones, the latter often with the forehead forming perfect
 circle and the points being within few
 inches of each other. The forehead is mar
 row and convex; head long in proportion to
 it's breadth horns large and black. General
 color dark slate color /; hair scanty and black;
 8 moderately developed dorsal ridge which
 terminates about the middle of the back;
 below the knees and hooks the color is light
 CT than the rest of the body, often inclinipg
 to dirty cream. The eye is full and dark,
 with vindictive expression. They are pos
 sessed of immense strength, ranking in that respect after elephants and rhinoceroses.
 They can force their way through long grass
 reeds and wild cardamon jungle with almost l as much ease as an elephant and their speed is equal to that of 8 cart-horse. They carry
 immense horns; but although there are still thousands in Assam and Burmah, very large horns seldom seen. Out of some hun dreds killed, the largest bulls horns meas ured across the forehead round the sweep II feet inches, and cows II feet inches, but have known them killed with horns over 12 feet; while one head, which I gave to the late Earl of Mayo, was 13 feet inches round the circumference, and feet 6 1-2 inches between the tips. The leviathan COW was shot by native from tree, and I se- cured the head for rupees. As it is the largest on record. it would have been cheap for $50 for a museum. There is single bulls horn in the British museum 6 1-2 feet long, Colonel Comber had one horn 6 feet 2 inches long given to him by the late Ze- mindar of Luckeepore. I once saw half tame albino COW at Tseeben, near Tongho, in Burmah, which had the longest horns have ever seen when she threw back her head they extended along the whole length of tho body to beyond the root of the tail. Each horn must have measured 1-2 to 8 feet, but she was so savage that even her owner dared not play any tricks with her or even handle her beyond milking her once 8 day. The man was 8 Karen. I coveted her head, and offered fifty rupees for her, which was more than her value, as she some what ancient;
 but the man, seeing how anxious was to be-
 come her purchaser. asked such exorbi-
 tant price that I declined to be victimized.
 The largest bull ever measured was 12 feet
 to the root of the tall tail, 2 1-2 feet;
 height, 6 feet inches; horns, from one tip to the other, II feet inches between the
 tips, 5 feet; thickness of horn at base, clear
 of skin, 23 inches. I shot bull in Bnrmah
 with horns nothing unusual as to length. but
 of the enormous girth of 27 inches each It
 took some 34 bullets to lay him low. He
 fought viciously and stubbornly and rendered
 one of my elephants hors de combat for four
 months from the severe injuries inflicted on it.