242 THROUGH ANGOLA 



The second method of travelling and hunting in 

 Angola is to use a wagon drawn by oxen, for horses 

 and mules are difficult to obtain, and too liable to 

 horse sickness to be safely used in the hunting 

 country. Wagons can only be used in the plateaux 

 of the centre and south, and not near the tsetse- 

 fly belts, which border portions of some of the 

 rivers like the Coanza, Cubal, Catumbella, and 

 possibly the Cunene, Cubango, and Coando. 



In spite of the danger of fly disease, wagon 

 transport could be used to approach the hunting 

 country, and form main camps outside the fly 

 belts ; pack transport by donkeys, which are 

 immune to horse sickness and very resistant to 

 fly ; or carriers being employed to form flying 

 camps in the fly-infested hunting-ground itself. 



As the wagon with eight span of oxen can 

 carry 6000 lb., this method of transport can be 

 made luxurious. Servants may be taken, tents, 

 beds, and other furniture and crockery carried 

 to the hunting - ground, and large numbers of 

 trophies brought back from it. Wagon transport 

 is slow, but eight hours travelling, at the rate of 

 2 miles an hour, can be clone in a day and night. 

 A greater disadvantage is the liability to the loss 

 of one's oxen by disease, or lions ; and if disaster 

 to the expedition is to be avoided, spare oxen, 

 pack donkeys, or carriers should accompany 

 it. 



A wagon and span, in 1920, could be bought 

 for 400, or hired with personnel, for 40 a month. 

 It is, however, not always possible to hire or buy 

 a wagon and team, for these are at present entirely 



