- Author:
- Browne, George Waldo
- Publication Info:
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Boston:
Marshall Jones company,
1907,
pg 221
Text on page 221
TIIE PHILIPPINES.
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He performs his ablutions by throwing himself on one side in some miry pool, rolling and plunging about until he is plastered with the sticky substance. When he has dried himself in the sun he looks like an ugly image of clay in his mud shell. Nature in this way provides him with a means of safety from the stings of millions of insects which swarm about him as lie feeds among the rank vegetation. He is an amphibious animal, and gets a considerable part of his food from a plant growing at the bottom of streams. If docile and attentive to his native master, he
carabaos transporting army stores.
has an overmastering fear of foreigners, and the mere sight of a white man has teen known to stampede every buffalo in town. The meat of the carabao is eaten by the natives.
Besides the species just described, there is another kind of buffalo on the island of Mindoro, which is a curious little animal living only in the dense jungles, and called the timarau. It is a mortal enemy to the carabao, and will attack the other upon sight, generally coming off the victor. Its flesh is good eating, but it cannot be tamed, and is seldom hunted, on account of its ferociousness.Besides the species just described, there is another kind of buffalo on the island of Mindoro, which is a curious little animal living only in the dense jungles, and called the timarau. It is a mortal enemy to the carabao, and will attack the other upon sight, generally coming off the victor. Its flesh is good eating, but it cannot be tamed, and is seldom hunted, on account of its ferociousness.
