. 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 . THE I J. Buffaloes prefer the mud and water wild conditions in which ah)iie it can he kept peace-able in captivity.* It is not known when these animals became domes-ticated, but certainly many centuries ago. Thev uereused by the Egyptians in the titth century and at thesame time the Arabs brought them to Persia. Theywere at about this period used in (jreece and Hungary,and in 600 ad were introduced by
. 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 . THE I J. Buffaloes prefer the mud and water wild conditions in which ah)iie it can he kept peace-able in captivity.* It is not known when these animals became domes-ticated, but certainly many centuries ago. Thev uereused by the Egyptians in the titth century and at thesame time the Arabs brought them to Persia. Theywere 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
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