WANT OF CATTLE. 649 



leprosy common in this quarter, though they are a cleanly people. 

 They never had cattle. The chief's father had always lived in 

 their present position, and, when I asked him why he did not 

 possess these useful animals, he said, " Who would give us the 

 medicine to enable us to keep them ?" I found out the reason 

 afterward in the prevalence of tsetse, but of this he was ignorant, 

 having supposed that he could not keep cattle because he had no 

 medicine. 



