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

 thougli not to tlie same exclusive extent as the cattle-keeping Masai. Thev 

 have a great indift'erence to clothing, and the drapery they wear is 

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



Their cattle are nolile adjuncts to the landscape of granite talileiands, 

 rolling downs, and ornamental trees. Larger than almost any other breed 

 of cattle in existence, with straight 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 



I02. I.AKK ai.i;ki:i eiavamti. katwk i.rij- 



IHl-; I AM ii:i.Ai:i'.A KiriH>l; 



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

 not on the pinions of the wing. 



Lake Albert Edward, wliich forms the western boundary of Ankole, has 



