606 WANT OF CATTLE. Chap. XXIX. 



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

 They never had cattle. The chiefs father had always lived in 

 their present position, and, when I asked hini 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 

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

 having supposed that he could not keep cattle because he .had 

 no medicine. 



