This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt: ...with orders to march as rapidly as possible, and to lose no time in returning to the main body. The next day the army again came in sight of buffaloes pursuer. Their beard is like that of goats, and so long that it drags the ground when they lower the head. They have, on the anterior portion of the body a frizzled hair ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt: ...with orders to march as rapidly as possible, and to lose no time in returning to the main body. The next day the army again came in sight of buffaloes pursuer. Their beard is like that of goats, and so long that it drags the ground when they lower the head. They have, on the anterior portion of the body a frizzled hair like sheep's wool; it is very tine upon the croup and sleek like a lion's mane. Their horns are very short and thick, and can scarcely be seen through the hair. They always change their hair in May, and at this season they really resemble lions. To make it drop more quickly, for they change it as adders do their skins, they roll among the brush-wood which they find in the ravines. "Their tail is very short and terminates in a great tuft. When they run they carry it in the air like scorpions. When quite young they are tawny and resemble our calves, but as age increases they change color and form. "Another thing which struck us was that all the old buffaloes that we killed had the left ear cloven, while it was entire in the young; we could never discover the reason of this. "Their wool is so fine that handsome clothes would certainly be made of it, but it cannot be died, for it is a tawny red. We were much surprised at sometimes meeting innumerable herds of bulls without a single cow, and other herds of cows without bulls. It would sometimes be forty leagues from one herd to another, and that in a country so level that from a distance the sky was seen between their legs, so that when many were together, they would have been called pines whose foliage united( and if but one was seen his legs had the effect of four pines. When near, then it was impossible by an effort, to perceive the ground beyond, for all this country is so flat, ...
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