“So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where ...” — John Hanning Speke Quote

“So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig.”

“In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa.”

“I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil, from European civilisation.”

“Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked.”

“Though so trifling, the success of our first Buffalo hunt gave us quite a social lift.”

“General Howe turned out some German wild boars and sows in his forests, to the great terror of the neighbourhood; and, at one time, a wild bull or buffalo: but the country rose upon them and destroyed them.”