. The water buffalo (often called the mud buffalo) its characteristics and habits together with a description of the preparation of its hide for making rawhide loom pickers . their guests. The natives ot the interior ot Java at the period otthe Mohammedan New Year sometimes stage a Rampok, THE BUFFALO II or tiger and buffalo tiglit, when a tiger and a domesti-cated water buffalo, usually a bull or a cow with a youngcalf, are placed in the arena. The tiger invariably at-tempts to kill his enemy by leaping on his shoulders andbreaking his neck, but when he is in the air midway othis leap
. The water buffalo (often called the mud buffalo) its characteristics and habits together with a description of the preparation of its hide for making rawhide loom pickers . their guests. The natives ot the interior ot Java at the period otthe Mohammedan New Year sometimes stage a Rampok, THE BUFFALO II or tiger and buffalo tiglit, when a tiger and a domesti-cated water buffalo, usually a bull or a cow with a youngcalf, are placed in the arena. The tiger invariably at-tempts to kill his enemy by leaping on his shoulders andbreaking his neck, but when he is in the air midway othis leap the buffalo usually lunges torward and strikeshim a stunning blow with his head and horns; then,before he can scramble to his feet, the buffalo is uponhim kneeling and kneading his body with such terrihcforce that he is left a bloody, mutilated and lifeless two tigers are pitted against one buffalo, andit is seldom that he tails to vanquish them. The Burmese when referring to a desperate combatot anv kind say AvTrc knit Kvii lo hcli — like a tightbetween a buffalo and a tiger—meaning to the , both wild and domesticated, have a ereat.
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