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grounds. He had perhaps 10,000 more on the graz- 
ing-grounds on the banks of the Kitangule, where 
they had better feeding, and looked more sleek. 
Some horns were two and three feet long, and eighteen 
inches round the base. No use seemed to be made of 
them, unless by Seedees and Arabs, who converted 
them into powder-horns. At nine every morning 
these 400 cows were trotted down the hill to then 
grazing-ground, sometimes accompanied by one of the 
princes, and they were walked back to be milked 
after dark, having been allowed to drink once at a 
trough of clay filled by an osier bucket from a well on 
the edge of the lake. Every tenth day the lanky 
creatures were driven down (at 7 a.m.) two hours 
earlier than usual, as they had to go farther, for the 
purpose of receiving a drench of brackish water some 
distance away. On the hillside by the path shallow 
pits are dug in horizontal lines, to allow water to 
collect there for cattle or wild animals. They are 
wretched milkers, only giving half the quantity of the 
plump small-horned breed of Unyanyembe, Two 
were set apart by the sultan for our use, as no one 
would drink from the same cow that supplied us ; 
and whether it was that the animals were less cared 
for, or that they soon became dry, our supply of milk 
latterly became reduced to almost nothing. No doubt 
this was attributed to our bewitching the cows by 
boiling the milk ! Daily, men carrying five or six 
prettily-shaped "chanzees" or jars of yellow wood, 
browned from use, slung from a stick on their 
shoulders, would pass my hut with milk for the 
palace. It was the staff of life — the children and 
women fattened upon it ; and the butter, sometimes 
