So, as you see, the bull buffaloes guard the Mammas and the children from danger, and they also guard all small and weak animals that come to them for safety.
Even when the buffaloes are grazing in the field, the boys may be near them, playing hide and seek, and running in and out between the buffaloes' legs, or under their horns.
If the danger were a tiger, the buffaloes could smell him half a mile off; that is about as far as ten blocks in a city.
The ravine was a deep hollow in the ground, like a huge ditch; and it ran all the way across the ground; so the buffaloes could not get over it, as they cannot jump as far as a tiger.
That is quite true; the buffaloesdo enjoy a good bath.
But already the buffaloes were making a ring around Gulab.
How Buffaloes Know Danger is Coming--Three Ways "But how could they know if any danger were coming?
That is the way the buffaloes have marched to the stream from their feeding place--horn to horn.
No elephants through all the ground, No buffaloes or deer are found.
They piled their heaps of venison near, Fat buffaloes and boars and deer.
The giants pointed to their stores Of buffaloes and deer and boars, And straight he gorged him with a flood Of wine, with marrow, flesh, and blood.
The buffaloes of the southern strip were the first to be exterminated, particularly when the building of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad facilitated entrance to the southern range.
How fast the buffaloes became exterminated may best be illustrated by the fact that, at the beginning of the present century, the bison had entirely disappeared from the eastern banks of the Mississippi.
We remained at Katamba to hunt buffaloes and rest, as I am still weak.
Some return for their kindness was made by Farijala shooting three buffaloes near the town: meat and goodwill go together all over Africa, and the liberal sportsman scores points at many a turn.
If a man of another district ventures among them, it is at his peril; he is not regarded with more favour as a Manyuema than one of a herd of buffaloes is by the rest: and he is almost sure to be killed.
The Neggeri, an African animal, attacks the tenderest parts of man and beast, cuts them off, and retires contented: buffaloes are often castrated by him.
The Musa sent with the buffaloes is a genuine specimen of the ill-conditioned, English-hating Arab.
Wherever buffaloes are to be caught, falling traps are suspended over the path in the trees near the water.
Of course, all were eager to know how the buffaloes could have delayed him; and therefore, while they were discussing their savoury supper, Basil narrated the details of his day's adventure.
There was still enough of the tongues and grouse left, along with some ribs of the antelope, to breakfast the party; and then all four set out to bring the flesh of Basil's buffaloes into camp.
Had it been buffaloes he would certainly have done so; but as he had never killed a moose, he was determined to slay the leader of the herd.
Beyond that, to the east and north, lie the primitive rocks of the Barren Grounds, into which the buffaloes never stray.
Of meat he had enough, since he had slain the two buffaloes to which the tongues had belonged; and these same buffaloes, he now informed them, had been the cause of his long absence.
Nowadays only buffaloes are killed at the Dacaratha festival, which is held in October on the ninth day of the month Acvina.
But in addition seven girls and five buffaloes were to be sacrificed to them every year, and these sacrifices used to be offered regularly until the practice was put down by the English Government.
For upwards of an hour and a half the wild chase was kept up; the plain was strewn with the dead and dying, and horsemen as well as buffaloeswere scattered far and wide.
The chief tells me that buffaloes have been reported in a spot which lies in the direction we must follow to recover the trail.
I say that you tumbled over six buffaloes and then tumbled over yourself," said Victor, laughing.
Close to my house was an enclosed mudhole where three buffaloes were shut up every night, and the effluvia from which freely entered through the open bamboo floor.
His buffaloessupplied plenty of milk from which he made his own butter; he grew his own rice and coffee, and had ducks, fowls, and their eggs, in profusion.
I imputed my illness chiefly to the water, which was procured from shallow wells, around which there was almost always a stagnant puddle in which the buffaloes wallowed.
Westerly winds and driving rains sometimes continued for days together; the fields for miles around were under water, and the ducks and buffaloes enjoyed themselves amazingly.
Here Mr. Zane found the drove of Buffaloeswhich he pursued; they took up this creek to the licks.
In the Fork of Licking Creek is a Lick much used byBuffaloes and many large Roads lead to it.
In our way we passed through a fine timbered clear wood; we came into a large road which the buffaloes have beaten, spacious enough for two wagons to go abreast, and leading straight into the Lick.
The following incident is related by Colonel Dodge: "Late in the summer of 1867 a herd of probably four thousand buffaloes attempted to cross the South Platte near Plum Creek.
That buffaloes were accustomed to traveling Indian routes is clearly proved by a number of incidents.
When a herd rested to ruminate the buffaloes arranged themselves in a peculiar, characteristic manner--the young always in the center with the mothers, the males forming a compact circle around them.
During the reign of the buffaloes in the Ohio basin their greater thoroughfares were undoubtedly made by their annual migrations, even though the extent of this movement did not exceed a few hundred miles.
Croghan wrote in his Journal (1765): "We came to a large road which the buffaloes have beaten spacious enough for a wagon to go abreast, and leading straight into the Lick.
Thy luck and the stupidity of thy buffaloeshave helped thee to this kill.
The buffaloes generally keep to the pools and muddy places, where they lie wallowing or basking in the warm mud for hours.
Now we must hide this and take the buffaloes home!
He was soothing the buffaloes now by voice, and Akela had dropped far to the rear, only whimpering once or twice to hurry the rear-guard.
The buffaloes were anxious enough to get to the village.
Keep the cows and calves together, and the bulls and the plow-buffaloes by themselves.
The other herd-children, watching with the cattle half a mile away, hurried to the village as fast as their legs could carry them, crying that the buffaloes had gone mad and run away.
These buffaloes will not charge unless they wind him, and I cannot speak their language.
That thou shouldst never be one of these hill-buffaloes of trackers.
Small children may then be seen seated sideways on the broad backs of the buffaloes while the beasts graze upon the skirting pasture, the children preventing them from injuring the growing crops.
The buffaloes kept moving slowly onward, browsing as they went, and continuing to lie down one after another.
The buffaloes approached the butte on which I was seated; and, perceiving the obstacle, suddenly forked into two great belts, and swept right and left around it.
The buffaloes were speedily skinned and packed, and taking a westerly course, we journeyed on to the mission.
We will find the wild cattle or the buffaloes upon the Llanos.
At one time I fancied I was moving, that the butte was sailing onward, and the buffaloes were standing still.
The thighs and ribs of the buffaloes had been polished as if scraped with a knife.
In this way, should the buffaloes allow time for the execution of the movement, we should be almost certain of securing the whole gang.
They do a little slovenly agriculture, using buffaloes for ploughing.
If a cutter can be found who has buffaloes of his own, it is better to hire them with him, as then they are sure to be taken care of.
The logs are squared in the woods and the butt ends are rounded like the runners of a sleigh, two holes are chopped at the top corners with a small adze called a palacol, through which rattans are passed for the buffaloes to be yoked to.
They plough the valleys with the aid of buffaloes and terrace the hillsides, which they cultivate by hand.
Buffaloes in this country," I interrupted, "likewise give milk and are used for ploughing.
During the breeding season, our wild buffaloes of the great vanished herds were much given to fighting, and always through jealousy.
Once while driving beside a creek on a hot and thirsty day, the super-heated buffaloes suddenly espied the water, twenty feet or so below the road.
He tried them with bridles and bits, but the buffaloes refused to work with them.
I believe that toward their keepers the bison, buffaloes and wild cattle entertain a certain measure of respect that in members of the Deer Family often is totally absent.
The fact is, that if a man has never run buffaloes before, he's sure to get one or two upsets, no matter how good a horseman he may be.
Pariah dogs yelped at them, some heavy carts drawn across the road caused a momentary halt, and a herd of untended buffaloes lying patiently near their byre told the story of the excitement that had drawn their keeper across the bridge.
Indians and their still greater herds - buffaloes - have been crowded out by the latter.
These people are early risers; the women are up milking the goats and buffaloesbefore daybreak, and the men hieing them away to the harvest fields and threshing-floors.
Having shot nearly two hundred buffaloes to my own rifle, and followed very many of them when wounded into very thick bush, I think I have had sufficient experience to express an opinion on the subject.
Although Selous held that lions are the most dangerous of all opponents, by his own accounts his escapes from infuriated buffaloes were quite as numerous as those from the great cats.
Buffaloes at this time were in immense herds feeding out in the open all day, even amongst the native cattle, and Selous shot several to provide meat for the Kafirs.
Buffaloes wounded by man or lions are always dangerous.
One after another, great herds of buffaloes emerged from the forest on either side of the valley and fed slowly down to the water.
Moreover, it may be added that buffaloes in old age often become deaf and lie in the bush until suddenly encountered by a man.
He himself had many narrow escapes from buffaloes and only one or two unpleasant incidents with lions.
Much of this time was spent in hunting giraffes, and he gives many lively accounts of this exhilarating sport, also of hunting buffaloes and the larger antelopes.
Niagara is pouring or a herd of wildbuffaloes sweeping down; but if the imploration is addressed to either of the moving bodies, it may not win quick obedience.
The fur-trader galloped at full speed towards a group of buffaloes which stood right before him, about two hundred yards off.
I do believe they've seen buffaloes on the other side of that mound," said Pemberton, as he rode forward.
The buffaloes gazed at him for one moment in stupid surprise, and then, with a toss of their heads and a whisk of their tails, they turned and fled.
Three Buffaloes also crossed ahead of us, but at some distance; they all reached the shore, and scrambled up the bank.
The prairies appear better now, the grass looks green, and probably the poor Buffaloes will soon regain their flesh.
We ourselves landed of course, but found the prairie so completely trodden by Buffaloes that it was next to impossible to walk.
Along the banks of the rivers, when the Buffaloes fall, or cannot ascend, and then die, the Wolves are seen in considerable numbers feeding upon them.
We saw where carcasses ofBuffaloes had been quite devoured by these animals, and the diversity of their colors and of their size is more wonderful than all that can be said of them.
We began seeing Buffaloes again in small gangs, but this afternoon and evening we have seen a goodly number, probably more than a hundred.
We passed several dead Buffaloes near the shore, on which the Ravens were feeding gloriously.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "buffaloes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
