. 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 . at about this period used in (jreece and Hungary,and in 600 ad were introduced by the Romans foragricultural purposes. In recent times Napoleon on his * Thcv lire also foniid on Mcllvilh Island, off the north-ern coast of Anstralia, -ic/iere t/nV -were introduced in anyyears ago and now nii/nher thonsiuuls. Here they are /inntedfor their hides. — Zinn in ??JVild ^Ininials of Iesterday and Today. i6 GJRLJXn
. 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 . at about this period used in (jreece and Hungary,and in 600 ad were introduced by the Romans foragricultural purposes. In recent times Napoleon on his * Thcv lire also foniid on Mcllvilh Island, off the north-ern coast of Anstralia, -ic/iere t/nV -were introduced in anyyears ago and now nii/nher thonsiuuls. Here they are /inntedfor their hides. — Zinn in ??JVild ^Ininials of Iesterday and Today. i6 GJRLJXn CO. return troni Egypt introduced them in Landes, a depart-ment ot France hnrderinir on the Pyrenees, and the Ijav c . i)t liiscav, where the hind on the shore is so swampy orsandy that the peasants walk on stihs wlien tending theirherds, hut the yenture was not a success, due perhaps tolack ot the tropical heat to which the huftalo is accus-tomed. Fevy animals haye clianged less in captiyity than thehuffalo, which neyer interhreeds with the natiye humpedIndian cattle. The huftalo matures at the age ot four,liyes aliout twenty years and is worth trom twenty-tive. BufFaloes about to charge the photographer THE
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