The Snow That Falls, Being
Very Light, Hath Not The Strenght To Stopp The Eland, [Footnote:
Elend,
plainly the Moose.
"They appear to derive their Dutch appellation
(eelanden) from elende, misery, they die of the smallest wound."
Documentary History of New York, by O'Callaghan, Vol. IV. p. 77.] which
is a mighty strong beast, much like a mule, having a tayle cutt off 2 or 3
or 4 thumbes long, the foot cloven like a stagge. He has a muzzle mighty
bigge. I have seene some that have the nostrills so bigg that I putt into
it my 2 fists att once with ease. Those that uses to be where the buffes be
are not so bigg, but about the bignesse of a coach horse. The wildmen call
them the litle sort. As for the Buff, it is a furious animal. One must have
a care of him, for every yeare he kills some Nadoneseronons. He comes for
the most part in the plaines & meddows; he feeds like an ox, and the
Oriniack so but seldom he galopps. I have seene of their hornes that a man
could not lift them from of the ground. They are branchy & flatt in the
midle, of which the wildman makes dishes that can well hold 3 quarts. These
hornes fall off every yeare, & it's a thing impossible that they will grow
againe. The horns of Buffs are as those of an ox, but not so long, but
bigger, & of a blackish collour; he hath a very long hairy taile; he is
reddish, his haire frized & very fine.
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