buffaloes

It was not because they were buffaloes, or because they were engaged in a fierce battle, -- it was because _they were white buffaloes_!

The Boy Hunters Mayne Reid 1850

_ But if they are bisons, why are they called buffaloes?

History, Manners, and Customs of the North American Indians 1787-1854 Old Humphrey 1820

Repeatability estimates of some economic characteristics in Italian buffaloes.

3 Milk 1981

Our food was chiefly the flesh of deer, dried and cured in the season; bread good enough, but baked as biscuits; dried fish of several sorts, and some flesh of mutton, and of buffaloes, which is pretty good meat.

The Further Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. Robinson Crusoe 1958

Did I not tell you that the buffaloes are the Knights of the Jungle?

The Wonders of the Jungle Book One Sarath Kumar Ghosh

Or, perhaps, our experience of the buffaloes is a more inconvenient one.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

"The buffaloes are a river, two miles wide, flowing between us and the savage hunters," said Boyd, "and not having trees to climb and glasses to look through they won't see us."

The Great Sioux Trail A Story of Mountain and Plain 1890

The Musa sent with the buffaloes is a genuine specimen of the ill-conditioned, English-hating Arab.

The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874

The commencement of the ceremonies which fell under this woman's peculiar management was the feast of the buffaloes (as all the men invited to it were called buffaloes), which was handed around in wooden bowls by herself and attendants.

O-kee-pa, a Religious Ceremony, and Other Customs of the Mandans 1867

For this the fat already obtained from the buffaloes was the very thing; and a small tin cup which Basil had saved from the wreck (it had been strung to his bullet-pouch), enabled them to melt the gum, and apply it hot.

Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850