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extends from the chin to the stomach, and greatly 
resembles the same appendage in the aoudad, or wild 
sheep of Northern Africa. I do not believe, however, 
that this domestic sheep of Central Africa had its origin 
in the “mouflon a manchettes” of Algeria. On the 
contrary, the ewe, which has no mane, and the young 
maneless rams, exactly resemble certain breeds of Persian 
sheep, like which they are pied black and white in colour. 
The goat of the Congo is a little compactly built animal, 
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short on the legs and very fat. The females make 
excellent milch goats, and their milk is a most delicious 
and wholesome addition to one’s diet. Unfortunately, 
they run dry after three months’ milking, and the only 
way to keep up a constant supply of this grateful fluid is 
to keep four or five of them at once, and arrange that 
they all kid at different times. The natives, however, 
never take this precaution, as they think it disgusting to 
drink milk. | 
The general type of the dog on the Upper Congo (on 
the Lower river it is much mixed with European races 
