[Footnote 44: Tunc (A.D. 596) primum, bubali in Italiam delati
Italiae populis miracula fuere, (Paul Warnefrid, l. iv. c. 11.)
The buffaloes, whose native climate appears to be Africa and
India, are unknown to Europe, except in Italy, where they are
numerous and useful. The ancients were ignorant of these
animals, unless Aristotle (Hist. Anim. l. ii. c. 1, p. 58, Paris,
1783) has described them as the wild oxen of Arachosia. See
Buffon, Hist. Naturelle, tom. xi. and Supplement, tom. vi. Hist.
Generale des Voyages, tom. i. p. 7, 481, ii. 105, iii. 291, iv.
234, 461, v. 193, vi. 491, viii. 400, x. 666. Pennant's
Quadrupedes, p. 24. Dictionnaire d'Hist. Naturelle, par Valmont
de Bomare, tom. ii. p. 74. Yet I must not conceal the suspicion
that Paul, by a vulgar error, may have applied the name of
bubalus to the aurochs, or wild bull, of ancient Germany.]