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The Rifle and The Hound in Ceylon

CHAPTER VI
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When I look back to those scenes, so many ghosts of victims rise up before me that, were I to relate one-half their histories, it would fill a volume.

The object in describing these encounters is to show the style of animal that the buffalo is in his natural state.

I could relate a hundred instances where they have died like curs, and have afforded no more sport than tame cows; but I merely enumerate those scenes worth relating that I have witnessed.

This will show that the character of a wild buffalo can never be depended upon; and if the pursuit is followed up as a sport by itself, the nature of the animal cannot be judged by the individual behaviour of any particular beast.

Some will fight and some will fly, and no one can tell which will take place; it is at the option of the beast.


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