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Exploring Company, where winter fodder is em- 

 pJoyed in feeding, and crops for fodder had been 

 grown. The greatest number of cattle was met 

 with in Benguella on my journey south from 

 Catengue to Lubango, in the Quillenges district 

 of Benguella district, or in the plateau round 

 Lubango (Huilla district), and from this town 

 westwards along the Southern Angola Railway 

 (Mossamedes district) till the desert country was 

 reached. There are two breeds of cattle, the 

 '' Quillenges ' : and " Selles," which- come from 

 their respective districts. A third race, the 

 " Yenges " cattle, which came originally from 

 Barotseland, have longer horns and are used as 

 riding oxen. 



The cattle arc small but well-shaped, weigh- 

 ing from 300 to 400 Ib. Their usual colour is a 

 patchy black and white, or red and white, more 

 rarely pure black, red, or white. The native 

 cattle graze and are corralled in the open, arid 

 no winter forage is ever prepared. One of the 

 diiJiculties in Angola has been the mixture of 

 poisonous plants with grass in some grazing lands, 

 bul the growing of forage should get rid of the 

 diQicuity. Cattle suffer from few diseases in 

 Angola, one of them is an infectious peri-pneu- 

 inonia (" Caonha " of the Portuguese), which is 

 more prevalent on the coast than in the plateau 

 region; another is a skin disease called " Sarha." 

 These diseases, once started, spread rapidly in 

 native herds, owing to lack of precaution. Vac- 

 cination has been used as a remedy with some 

 measure of success. The natives breed cattle 



