water buffalo

Historical Examples of water buffalo

• The Kĕlantan man is, to the native of Pahang, what the water-buffalo is to a short-horn.

  In Court and Kampong

  Hugh Clifford

• The domestic animals include the camel and the water-buffalo.

  Myths and Legends of China

  E. T. C. Werner

• A heron which was standing on the back of a water-buffalo near by saw the affair.

  Filipino Popular Tales

  Dean S. Fansler

• The most common beast of burden, however, is the carabao, or water-buffalo.

  Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania 

  Jewett Castello Gilson

• Cattle breeding in China was then reduced to the minimum of one cow or water-buffalo per farm for ploughing.

  A history of China., [3d ed. rev. and enl.]

  Wolfram Eberhard