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everywhere free from intermixture with the zebu or humped type (which 

 constitutes the alternative cattle in tropical Africa), the Hima ox occasionally 

 exhibits a hump on the shoulders and an exaggerated dewlap. This breed 

 of ox seems to reach its typical development in the Gala countries forming 

 the southern half of the Abyssinian dominions. It may be connected in 

 origin with the long-horned cattle of Southern Europe and Hungary. 

 There is, as far as I am aware, nothing like it amongst the domestic oxen 

 of Asia. This big long-homed ox is rather curiously distributed in Africa. 



347. HIMA CATTLE 



In a somewhat dwarfed form it may be met with in the interior of Sierra 

 Leone and in the regions of the Upper Niger, perhaps also in Kano and 

 Bornu. It is found in Abyssinia and Southern Somali! and ; in Uganda as 

 an imported animal ; in Ankole, and on most of the high plateaux between 

 the Victoria Nyanza and Tanganyika. South of Tanganyika it does not 

 make its appearance again until one has crossed the Zambezi. From the 

 Central Zambezi down to Cape Colony it is the dominant type of ox where 

 European breeds have not been introduced. It is also found in a form 

 closely resembling the Hima ox in Damaraland and Ovampoland and in 



