Buffaloes chasing boys into the sea on the island of Pulo Condore (Con Son, Vietnam). The English procured eight water buffalo, Bubalus bubalis, and had trouble loading them on their ships. From an incident on Captain Cook’s final voyage. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Reverend Thomas Smith’s The Naturalist’s Cabinet, or Interesting Sketches of Animal History, Albion Press, James Cundee, London, 1806. Smith, fl. 1803-1818, was a writer and editor of books on natural history, religion, philosophy, ancient history and astronomy.

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