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apparently to gain not only money but prestige ; 

 the ownership of a large herd carrying the same 

 social weight as a brougham would once have 

 done, or a Rolls-Royce car does to-day. Little 

 milking and no butter-making is done by the 

 natives, nor do they eat much beef themselves. 

 Cattle fetch from 50 escudos a head in the interior, 

 and three times this price at the ports. In the 

 European farms, cattle breeding is carried out by 

 crossing selected European bulls with the local 

 cows, and the cattle are bred for milk and butter 

 as well as for beef. 



Horses. There are few horses in Angola, and 

 these are owned chiefly by the Boers, who use 

 them as shooting ponies. Tsetse fly and horse 

 sickness are the chief difficulties to horse-breeding 

 in the colony. 



Goats are to be seen in nearly every village, 

 even in the fly zone, and these animals appear 

 more resistant than most others to the tsetse. 

 They are very prolific, a virtue which they appar- 

 ently have possessed for centuries, from the 

 accounts of Cavazzi, Dapper, Hakluyt, and other 

 older historians. 



Sheep. The Angolan sheep have no wool, but 

 a coat of bristly hair instead. They are very 

 leggy and generally thin. The fat-tailed variety 

 of sheep is represented in the colony. 



Pigs. The biggest pig I ever saw in my life 

 was in a farm near the sable country. It was a 

 cross between a Portuguese black pig and the 

 local race, which is itself big. Pigs, which breed 

 well in Angola, appear to be immune to most of 



