HUMPED CATTLE OF ASIA AND AFRICA 163 
Southwards long-horned cattle, although absent 
from the eastern coast districts, are prevalent through 
the interior of the continent to the Lake region, and 
were formerly abundant in southern Darfur and 
Loango. In the Lake region itself Unyoro and 
Ankoli, lying to the eastward, respectively, of the 
Albert and Albert Edward Nyanza, are the homes 
of cattle with very long and shapely horns, and no 
distinct hump. In the case of the Ankoli breed the 
bulls are generally white and the cows red. The 
enormous horns, which are longest in the cows, are 
characterised by their relative slenderness and 
smoothness, those of the cows curving regularly 
upwards and outwards, with a backward direction at 
the tips, which are darker than the remainder. The 
ears are small. Except for their much greater size, 
the horns recall those of some types of the ancient 
Egyptian long-horned breed. In Unyoro the cattle 
are stated to be mainly greyish or light brown, the 
same being the case with those of the Victoria 
Nyanza district. Cattle of much the same type 
extend over the plateau between the lake last named 
and Tanganyika ; and the name of Wakuma or Watusi 
cattle has been applied to the whole group. 
In the interior of East Africa the Masai, in the 
Kilimanjaro district, and the Wakua tribes also 
possessed humpless, large-horned cattle of the Watusi 
type. Southwards of the Zambesi and Cuneni Rivers 
the native tribes, before the great outburst of rinder- 
pest, were the owners of vast herds of long-horned 
cattle. The horns of the Bechuana breed, for 
example, attained enormous dimensions, the tip-to- 
tip interval being stated in some instances to be 
fully 8^ feet, and the length of single horns between 
