The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1891-05-02
AUSTRALIAN suFpALoIs.



I.xistears.
Although ! have Lees over thlT'F-
seven years in Australia. Oys wriirI
in tn. brisbane New.Zeelonsisr, il was
80. until eighteen lnoaths ago that
was aware that there waD breei oi
Wild buffa alo.s ia these colonies, and
venture to say that u0s - pr cent o'
III. inhabitants Of QssssonSend. or even
half that numt-r. arc awose Of III. fact,
Curiousiy enough. have two stimuli
,an.ous inquiries ahoui tasn-ons from
rroI Wallace. Of EAiinbsrvh, and Ia.
other from u gentieinsa In Michigan.
4. =. a. laid myself cut 10 msiss fall
Inquiries an the sabjees. asd !, has o.
Cured to n- that ti,s Psele will h, in
i-rcst.d ,o know the Fssslt Nr, H. II,
Purcell. who has s<cn several Of them
la the far north. and was psss-n, al ths
,l-a,h Of one, gayc ias . minute d-s-rrip
,ion Of them. which tailles exactly will
wha, I learned frn<u osbss soure-s- Nir
T. i'siuses. ~. L. n. ~ saA ~ shss
one of the Islands ou tlsc northern eors.i
H. fully stocked with them. aah isolAt-s'
bulls fnom the herd oa th. mainland o.
casionaiiy lind their way as far .as, a,
sral have reached Mr.. uAnn's Lawn
iiiii station. In pr. iIrichhafsi,'s luuT
nal Of hi, expedition from Morv'on hay
10 Fort Essin.snn. In isss-5, he n-n
,ions that Mr., Roper AMI 'he black
i.sys, Charley aud ''iirowh," raI
down and shot one thirty miles fr1n
Fort Essington. and that they werv sHl
IL H. numerous th~Tv. and wrn- .alirs
by the blacks ''sna,,oryn-" l.-i.hhaF,l
state, that they ''asr the offspring Z"
the stock which had either ~sray-'i ffon
the settlement at ltafflrs bay or hrs
l-r-n left i-,lini when that establish
nrnt war broken up. They w.r- orig,
naliy introduced from tho Mails.
Islands was struck wit
the remarkable thickness. Of thci'
kin ,aimosi nn ineh). and wit
ti,r soildi,y Of their bones. which ."n
;aincd little marrow. hut that ii;'i
VA. extremely savory." Mr.. l'ain,-.
state. tina, the bull kiii-i on hi. rus
weighed almost n ton. was cstnrn-lN
broad and well dc,-ioi-d In the fon'
quarters, but tai-ring oa In the hind
quarters
mex, directed my inquiries 10 ;hi
museum. AMI here was mo~t fpr,una'
ia getting Information frum the maj
al-,,- all others la Queensland tnu.
rdnI-i-ni Ia give it-nam-iy. MIR. sf,aid
inr. the taSl,i-rmtst of the mu.runi
who sr-nt many months In the .-n'-r %:
'h-ir great haunt near Fort Darwin
Mr.. spaiiin. showed mr the head an.
h0rns Of one 81 th~>r bafYaio-, that
made i,s way eastward In the direction
81 Charters Towers, and was shot th-r'
11sn. two years ago. The horn. arr
mos, remarkable. bcins sluarr "a, 'h'
butt and four inches thick. They ris.
in u ,sini.circlr hut incline backward
~ that the animals, when they charpr.
which they do fursou~iy. have Ia pu, thch
h.a.l~ t'-s~~~~ shsis sorrless- 'rhs
horns arr cxtsosnely uaas<. ~ euRasssl.
and of dirty brown eoSoe. Mr.. srald.
Ing corro,Drnird the statements oi
Mc>sr~ Palmer and Purcell ~ tn the
bunaiors being very numcrous-in
many thousands-at Port E.sinyton.
l,aiii-s bay and Melville Iaiand. A mar
has been engaged for number of year
hh"o,ing them and making handsome
income by selling the hIics. On account
81 the extreme thickness OF hide they n,
siSi an ordinary cartridge. and heavy
lcadcn bullets have To bc used. The,
arc what arr fnmiliarly known n,
mud buffalo. having very little hair
on their bodies, which arc Of dir;y
rcdiish.brown cokpr.
I, may not br generally known that
number Of Timor ponies were intro
duccd n, Port Essing,on with the bufra
LOGS. These have also increased to y
large herd. and Mr.. Spnlding describe.
them rs exceedingly handsome littl,
animals