Chapter BUDGROOK to BUFFALO of B by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

that it is very strange to see.” —Ibid. 386.

1589.—“They doo plough and till their ground with kine, bufalos, and bulles.”— Mendoza’s China, tr. by Parkes, ii. 56.

[c. 1590.—Two methods of snaring the buffalo are described in Ain, Blochmann, tr. i. 293.]

1598.—“There is also an infinite number of wild buffs that go wandering about the desarts.”—Pigafetta, E. T. in Harleian Coll. of Voyages, ii. 546.

[1623.—“The inhabitants (of Malabar) keep Cows, or buffalls.”—P. della Valle, Hak. Soc. ii. 207.]

1630.—“As to Kine and Buffaloes … they besmeare the floores of their houses with their dung, and thinke the ground sanctified by such pollution.”—Lord, Discoverie of the Banian Religion, 60–61.

1644.—“We tooke coach to Livorno, thro’ the Great Duke’s new Parke, full of huge corke-trees; the underwood all myrtills, amongst which were many buffalos feeding, a kind of wild ox, short nos’d, horns reversed.” —Evelyn, Oct. 21.

1666.—“… it produces Elephants in great number, oxen and buffaloes” (bufaros). —Faria y Souza, i. 189.

1689.—“… both of this kind (of Oxen), and the Buffaloes, are remarkable for a big piece of Flesh that rises above Six Inches high between their Shoulders, which is the choicest and delicatest piece of Meat upon them, especially put into a dish of Palau.”— Ovington, 254.

1808.—“… the Buffala milk, and curd, and butter simply churned and clarified, is in common use among these Indians, whilst the dainties of the Cow Dairy is prescribed to valetudinarians, as Hectics, and preferred by vicicous (sic) appetites, or impotents alone, as that of the caprine and assine is at home.” —Drummond, Illus. of Guzerattee, & c.

1810.—

“The tank which fed his fields was there…
There from the intolerable heat
The buffaloes retreat;
Only their nostrils raised to meet the air,
Amid the shelt’ring element they rest.”

Curse of Kehama ix. 7.

1878.—“I had in my possession a head of a cow buffalo that measures 13 feet 8 inches in circumference, and 6 feet 6 inches between the tips—the largest buffalo head in the world.”—Pollok, Sport in Br. Burmah, &c., i. 107.

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