...uerto del Principe -- Landing of the pirates -- The Spanish cavalry attack the bandits -- A terrible battle and the cavalry is repulsed -- The gates o... ...How he rebuked his partner in crime -- Savage destruction of the Buccaneers -- Bandits of the ocean wave -- Last appearance of the Buccaneers -- The C... ...e -- Female wrestlers and boxers -- An extraordinary dance -- A band of bamboo players -- The female dancers punished for a false step 469- 480 CHAPTE... ...lted by a goat........................................ 450 Procession of flute-players............................................. 451 Feast of the R... ...d strong bows, and protected with an armor made of the hides of crocodiles and buffaloes, they were enabled to overcome any small party whom they went... ...lar means of torture: --the offender's hands were bound in the fresh hide of a buffalo, which, in drying, shrank so that the hands of the victim were ... ... the vast fields in which his yams were raised, of the numbers of his oxen and buffaloes, and of the boys he had in training to become soldiers. In re... ...rs and the hides of a few bullocks that had been killed for food. The famished bandits quickly drove away the vultures that, having devoured the offal... ...al for the collection of a crowd, and when a circle of auditors was formed the players began, their selections consisting of improvised songs with occ...

...s who live on the ground and are not predatory killers: musk ox, bison, water buffalo. Procreating mature male mammals generally have the shorte... ..., less agile, larger, less numerous pack. Wild dogs do not bother with water buffalo. But Lions can, and do hunt them. But once down? A good pac... ...o kill. By a higher power making them lords, kings of their ecosystem. By a Buffalo spirit coming to them in dreams; and explaining to them why it ... ...your partner to hit the ball back to you. As a result, most fledgling tennis players get disgusted at not having a chance even to touch the ball and... ...ult ability and can control the ball with their racquets enough to beat other players who have wasted most of their lives trying to win… Competiti... ...ecting some athletic feat is everywhere in mass culture. Surfers, basketball players, skate boarders and roller-bladers waste years of their life t... ... into towns; seeking safety in numbers from the ravaging bands of robbers and bandits that were terrorizing the land. These Medieval towns, villages... ... crowded. Both rich and poor sought refuge from wandering gangs of killers, bandits and robbers in towns. Everybody preyed upon everybody else. ... ...e of all of Europe. How it was done still makes no sense. The Spanish greed bandits were hailed as literal gods come from the heavens, as demi-god...

...eir feathers, whole sheep cooked in sweet wine, haunches of she-camels and buffaloes, hedgehogs with garum, fried grasshoppers, and preserved dormice.... ...ad long composed the third army, but no- mads from the tableland of Barca, bandits from Cape Phiscus and the promontory of Dernah, from Phazzana and M... ... their painted mares; others were mounted on asses, onagers, ze- bras, and buffaloes; while some dragged after them the roofs of their sloop-shaped hu... ...h pipes, made a shrill clashing noise; the tabourines, beaten with all the players’ might, resounded with heavy, rapid blows; and, in spite of the fur... ...o make them let go, and handed them over to the men in red. The instrument-players sometimes stopped through exhaustion; then the cries of the mothers... ...filled themselves so abundantly with water that they vomited it forth like buffaloes. The freshness gradually spread; they breathed in the damp air wi... ...ruscans, five hundred Samnites, forty Gauls, and a troop of Naffurs, nomad bandits met with in the date region—in all seven thousand two hundred and n...

...who has associated himself most closely with the Italian peasantry and the bandits of the Pyrenees? When the traveller enters his little chamber beyon... ...ittle understood—being, I venture to say, appropriated in a wrong sense by players themselves. There fore, ladies and gentlemen, I can only present t... ...re—bethinking myself that you may, if you be so minded, call a butterfly a buffalo, without advancing a hair’s breadth towards making it one—I became ...

...tired, a cowboy told of courts and kings and lords and ladies he had seen when Buffalo Bill toured the capitals of Europe. In a corner, two half breed... ...hem all and all of them needing guns, mere adventur ers, soldiers of fortune, bandits, disgruntled American union men, socialists, anarchists, rough ... ...h his wife and her women, with his priests and sorcerers, his dancers and flute players and hula singers, and fighting men and servants, and his high ch...