CHAPTER XVII 



THE WILD ANIMALS AND THEIR DISTRIBUTION 



IN a country like Angola, of great uninhabited 

 spaces, the domestic animals are necessarily 

 very limited in number and subordinate 

 in zoological importance to wild life and the 

 insect world. Stock is dealt with in the chapter 

 on farming, and insects in the chapter following 

 this ; which deals mainly with the larger wild 

 animals, whose description and distribution is 

 given briefly, along with their Latin and native 

 names. The Portuguese names are added where 

 they are distinctive, though few names are given 

 to wild African animals by the Portuguese, who 

 take little interest in them, and call most antelope 

 " cabras ' : or goats, just as many untra veiled 

 English people speak of them as " deer." 



The account of the game distribution is, I am 

 aware, imperfect. It has been worked out from 

 my own records, local information, and the narra- 

 tives of Cavazzi, Livingstone, Cameron, Capello 

 and Ivens, Serpa Pinto, Carvalho, and Joao de 

 Almeida. The description of game animals and 

 their distribution was so inaccurate in most of 

 these books that every effort was made to correct 

 it by information from Boers, Portuguese, English, 



