i6o THE OX AND ITS KLNDRED 
at the tips, so that they approximate in some degree 
to the type of the Indian Gujrati breed. The hump 
is, however, much smaller than in the latter, and 
the ears are small and upright. These cattle are 
generally or always parti-coloured ; and their fore- 
head lacks the convexity of the long-horned breed 
of the Blue Nile. In several of these respects the 
Nuer cattle, like those of Gallaland, mentioned next, 
depart less widely from the wild bantin than is the 
case with many of the Indian breeds. 
More to the eastward, in Abyssinia and Gallaland, 
are numerous breeds of humped cattle remarkable 
for the enormous girth of their huge horns ; but 
many of them have of late years been more or less 
decimated by rinderpest. The breeds with the 
largest horns inhabit the lowlands, those from the 
mountains having these appendages of smaller 
dimensions. Some of the largest horns of all are 
met with in the cattle of the Arusi-Gallas and the 
Shilla tribe, especially those members of these tribes 
who inhabit the neighbourhood of Lake Zuay or 
Zwei. These Galla or Sanga cattle are generally 
white and have small or no humps, their muzzles 
being black, the legs relatively long, and the bones 
small. In stature these oxen are very large, and 
their horns, which rise vertically, and are often more 
or less nearly lyre-shaped, frequently measure close 
on four feet in length, and will hold four or five 
gallons of water. 
The Bornu breed, from the country lying immedi- 
ately to the south-west of Lake Chad, is also white, 
and apparently nearly allied to the last. According 
to the account given by Colonel Hamilton Smith,^ 
^ The Animal Kingdom^ London, 1827, vol. iv. p. 426. 
