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Anthropology : Historical 



the Mauritanian domestic cattle, which were largely of the Bos 

 tanrus breed, with a slight intermixture of the Egyptian type. 

 In the regions ot Senegambia and the Mandingo Plateau this 

 much smaller type ot ox was developed from a mixture between 

 the Egyptian and Mauritanian breeds. 



The Mandingo cattle seem to stand the moist forest climate 

 of Liberia pretty well, but have not become so completely 

 acclimatised as is the case with the still smaller parti-coloured 

 short-horned cattle, which, though they may have been brought 



328. MANDINGO CATTLE, LIBERIA 



direct from Northern Europe, have in the course of three 

 centuries become a well-established local breed. 



The Goat is not such a common domestic animal in Liberia 

 as it is (for example) in the Niger Coast Protectorate or through 

 the southern third of Africa. It is more abundant perhaps 

 in the interior than on the coast. It belongs of course to the 

 well-marked breed of Central Africa, which ranges in its dis- 

 tribution throughout the tropical parts of the continent from 

 the mouth of the Senegal to Somaliland and from the southern 



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