CATTLE. 



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which will eventually lead to the wished-for end. 



Animals are here rare. Cows soon die after 

 eating the grass, and even the Banyans despair 

 of keeping them alive. Sheep are scarcely to he 

 found, and goats, being almost wild, give very 

 little milk, and that only before yeaning. But 

 fish is abundant ; poultry thrives, as it does all 

 over Africa, though not so much on the coast as 

 in the interior ; and, before the late feuds began, 

 clarified butter, that ' one source ' of the outer 

 East, was cheap and plentiful. Made in the in- 

 terior by the Wazegura, and other Washenzi, 

 with rich milk, stored in clean vessels, and sold 

 when fresh, it reminded me of the J'aferabadi 

 ' Ghi,' so celebrated throughout Western India. 



Panga-ni, with its three neighbours, may con- 

 tain a total of 4000 inhabitants, Arabs and 

 Wasawahili, slaves and heathenry : of these a 

 large proportion are feminines and concubines. 

 Twenty Banyans manage the lucrative ivory 

 trade of the Chaga, Xguru, and TJmasai coun- 

 tries, which produce the whitest, largest, heaviest, 

 softest, and, perhaps, finest ivory known. The 

 annual export is said to be 35,000 lbs., besides 

 1750 lbs. of black rhinoceros horn, and 160 lbs. 

 of hippopotamus' teeth; the latter is an article 

 which, since porcelain teeth were invented, has 



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