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the Egyptian Sudan and westwards to Lake Chad and the 

 Niger. In Galaland and parts of Abyssinia they became the 

 dominant breed, and from these regions they were brought by 

 Gala immigrants into the regions about the ■ Great Lakes, 

 perhaps even mingling their strain with the Indian breed, as 

 far south as German East Africa. 



The humped or Indian type of ox, derived no doubt 



324. 'IHE STRAIGHT-BACKED MANDINGO OX 



separately from a wild form, Bcs indtLUS, at a relatively early period 

 reached Egypt and East Africa vid Arabia. The Hottentots 

 when they migrated southwards from East Africa seem to have 

 brought with them some of the long-horned breed, though it 

 is possible that the long-horned, big-framed cattle of South 

 Africa and Madagascar arose almost entirely from the cattle 

 introduced from Spain, in which, however, there was a marked 



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