Sentences with phrase «wild oxen»

To the word boucan belongs the term boucanier, bucancir, given to the French hunters of St. Domingo, from their preparing the flesh of the wild oxen and boars in this way, and applied less appropriately to the rovers of the Spanish Main.

You have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen!

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Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, it killed 90 % of the cattle and large proportions of domestic oxen used to pull plows, and decimated wild buffalo, giraffe, and wildebeest populations.