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other crops seen ripening in November, were Indian 
corn and manioc ; sweet potato was ripe and abun- 
dant ; sorghum, " M'tama," at that season, was scarce 
and dear ; tobacco, fowls, goat, and cows were more 
expensive than we had found them in Unyamuezi. 
The cattle looked wildly at our dress, and were here 
a different breed — namely, the heavy, ungraceful, large- 
horned variety of Karague, without humps, and many 
of them probably from Unyoro, hornless, like the Tees- 
water breed, but bony and gaunt from bad grazing. 
All night the people allow their cattle to remain in 
the field, without any fence, standing round smoulder- 
ing fires by their habitations. I observed at cow- 
milking time the skin of a calf placed in front of one 
cow, when she licked it all over, and while her hind- 
legs were tied with a thong, the milk was taken. In 
a goat that was killed, a black glazed ball of hair very 
much resembling its own was found inside : no cattle 
diseases were heard of. The manner our men had of 
getting hold of a vicious cow was quite African. A 
noose is laid on the ground, she is driven over it till 
by perseverance she is caught ; or if she is to be killed, 
they chase her with a sword-bayonet, and either ham- 
string or break the bone of a hind-leg. 
In the southern forests of Uzinza, hartebeest, eland, 
zebra, pig, and various species of antelope might be 
shot from horseback or on foot, as there is a wide 
range of fine country for them ; but the greatest num- 
ber and variety of animals I saw in Africa were in the 
valley of Urigi, which is the boundary between Uzinza 
and Karague ; all the above animals, with the rhino- 
ceros and giraffe, might certainly be seen any morning 
by the sportsman. The valley or plain is covered with 
