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strain (in some districts) of the Egyptian breed. But most of 

 the cattle in the possession of the Bantu races, if not of the 

 Hottentots, at the time when Europeans first came into contact 

 with South Africa, belonged to the smaller, humped Indian type. 

 This same Indian breed also found its way into Eastern Africa, 

 where it became the dominant race, and is such at the present 

 day (the Masai cattle belong to this stock). Thence, by way 

 of the Great Lakes, it reached the southern and western portions 





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of the Congo Basin. Skirting the forest region on the north, 

 into which cattle have very rarely penetrated, it was carried 

 across Africa in ancient times via Lake Chad and the Niger, and 

 from the regions of the Niger found its way along many paths 

 to the coast of Guinea. The indigenous domestic cattle of the 

 Lower Niger regions are all of this humped, spotted type. 

 But I do not think that the humped type of ox has wandered 

 farther west in Africa than the Gold Coast and the regions 

 behind, in the bend of the Niger. 1 have seen no trace of the 

 Indian type of ox, for example, in Liberia or in Sierra Leone, 



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