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subject race, and live mainly on the produce of their flocks and herds, 

 though not to the same exclusive extent as the cattle-keeping ]Masai. They 

 have a great indifference to clothing, and the drapery they wear is 

 intended either for temporary adornment or to meet a cold wind. 



Their cattle are noble adjuncts to the landscape of granite tablelands, 

 rolling downs, and ornamental trees. I^arger than almost any other breed 

 of cattle in existence, with straiglit backs and long dewlaps and enormous 

 spreading horns, they make the commonplace rubbish-heaps of the village 

 interesting and picturesque, and give their pasture grounds of short grass 

 interspersed with clumps of bracken, brambles, and English-looking flowers 

 the appearance of some precious bit of wild English park, in which a rich 

 man keeps feral cattle for their beauty and not for beef. About Ankole 

 and Eastern Toro there flits a black and white chat which is a near relation 

 of the one which is so prominent a feature in the landscapes of the Eastern 



102. LAKE ALBERT EPWAKn, KATWE GULF {\0r/7 THE CANnELABRA EUPHORBL\s) 



Province, with this difference — that the white spot is on the shoulder and 

 not on the pinions of the wing. 



Lake Albert Edward, which forms the western lioundary of Ankole, lias 



