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BANTU NEGllOES 



evcrvwhcrc fVcc IVoiii iiilcriiiixt luc with the zchii or iiuiii[;e(l type (wliicli 

 constitutes the alternative eat tie in tropical Africa), the Hinia 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 biy- lonijf-liorned 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 

 I.eone and in the regions of the Upper Niger, perhaps also in Kano and 

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

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

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

 make its ajjpearance 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 Ilima ox in Damaraland and Ovampoland and in 



