The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-07

lesque on the Spanish bull fight, in
which tragedy gives way utterly to
farce. Though 1t is tremendous
struggle Of the beast pitted against
beast, yet 1t is not sanguinary. Less
blood Is shed than In a bantam cock
! fight.
Water buffaloes, or carabaoes, are
the cOmbatants In these struggles.
Two bullocks are matched against
each other, and after being led to
where they stand, head to head, they
are made to lock horns. At the snap
OF a whip the two beasts strive each
to push the other backward. A ring
Is drawn around them, and the one
which shoves it's adversary's four feet
out OF the circle is acclaimed the
victor
1.-The carabao of the Philippines has
more strength in its head and neck
than twelve ordinary men in their
wnole bodies,' said an army officer
VINO recently returned to this city
from an extended tour of the Philip
pine lslanos. Il once saw a tug of
war in which one water buffalo by
means OF IL rope tied around its horns
pulled ten husky American soldiers
after him.
although the domesticated carabao
is even more stupidity docile than the
OK OF the United States, yet it has a
righteousness in its nature which
needs only to be aroused to assert it.
SELF. When two water buffaIo bulls
are at first pitted one against the
other, they will make no ATTEMPT to
cOaKed into a fight. Not until they
tn oh hot
together a half dozen times do they
get the idea of continuing the conflict
OF their own accord.
"The carabao fights are chiefly
loved by the .Filipinos, believe, be-
cause of the chance they give them to
gamble. Every spectator bets on one
animal of the other. l know of one
instance where fight was held at the
capital of the Sulu Archipelago, at
which the Sultan, although he had
wagered 500 on the larger combatant,
acted as judge. Each beast was owned
by datto, or native prince. Both bulls
had been in former struggles, and
each was the champion OF his respec-
tive province. Yet neither would con-
sent to fight until they had seen stars
three or four times from cracking
their skulls together at the snap of
the whips of their masters. Then at
last they locked horns. First one
would shove the other dangerously
near the circle, which had been drawn
around them with diameter of about
twenty feet, and then be compelled to
retreat as close to the line itself.
Several times I though the smaller
carabaO was defeated, but in each
instance It kept one foot within the
ring. Whenever either carabao tried
to break away and use it's horns to
gore its adversary it was beaten
savagely over the nose and its MUIR
derous designs frustrated. Neither
datto desired to lose his beast, for
although he might buy another for SIS,
to him the animal represented a small
fortune. Since the plague, which
killed off nine-tenths of the carabaoes
! of the islands, they have become to the
natives almost priceless.
cat last the smaller animal, by
catching its adversary of its guard,
showed him completely out of the ring.
The struggle had lasted about fifteen
minutes. l looked at the Sultan, to
see him pay the owner of the winning
brute the 500 he had pompously an
| nounced that he had be against him
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my surprise, he simply took out the
money from his sash with one hand,
held it out toward the victorius datto
and then put it back with the other
| hand. Thereupon, l learned that the
Sultan never loses a wager. That
whenever he bets with a subject, and
his subject wins, the latter gives up
his claim out of loyalty to his SOW
ereign. Accordingly, the Sultan is a
great plunger"
| In striking contrast to the domesti-
Gated carabao of the Philippines,
which Is to the natives of those islands
what the horse, donkey, mule, OK, goat,
trolley car, subway and railroad train
are to the American, is its cousin, the
! wild water buffalo of India. This ami
NAL is noted for the fierceness with
| which it fights. Instead of simply
ramming it's adversary with it's head,
| it uses it's horns so skillfully as to
kill its enemy, and is dreaded even by
the tiger. A favorite sport among
Indian princes is to corral water
buffalo with tiger and watch them
| fight. AS a general thing the buffalo
is the victor, for it pursues it's enemy
relentlessly, giving it no opportunity
to get its breath and parrying the
great cats plunges with it's sharp
horns. This type of buffalo attains a
| size of ten and half feet from nose
to the root of the tail and six and a
half feet in height at the shoulder.
The water buffalo of the Philippines
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