of Edinhurgli, Session 1883-84. 
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Animals . — The jungles abound in wild animals, the number and 
variety of which afford a wide field of sport for the hunter, and a 
choice abundance of food for the whole tribe. 
The following animals are hunted, and all except leopards, 
baboons, and foxes are used as food : — Elephants, buffaloes, gazelles, 
rhinoceroses, hippopotami, crocodiles, wild boars, leopards, giraffes, 
elands, baboons, tetels, rabbits, porcupines, ostriches, guineafowls, 
wild ducks, pigeons, and various other species of beasts and birds 
which I am unable to identify. 
The animals in a state of domestication are cattle, sheep, goats, 
dogs, and fowls. Fowls are fed with semsem and dhurra, A 
conical stone house is made for them close by the dwelling-hut, 
but no porches are provided. The people keep bees. The hives 
are made of basket-work, and fixed on the branches of a tree. 
The man who takes them up makes at the same time a sort of 
whistling noise, which seems intended to be a call to the bees. 
A hole is left at the bottom of the hive to allow of the bees getting 
in, and of the honey being subsequently taken out. To accomplish 
this a basket is pulled up, filled, and let down again, the use of a 
branch as a pulley being evidently unknown. Sheep and goats are 
kept in large numbers. Their sheds have wooden walls with thorns 
fixed on them, as a protection from hyenas, and they are roofed in 
like the dwelling- huts. 
Gazelles and tetels are tamed when caught young, the former 
being fed on goats’ milk and the latter on cows’ milk. The tetels 
are kept for the purpose of milking. Eabbits are tamed, but not 
very successfully, as when they are full grown they generally 
manage to escape. Birds are not kept in captivity. The domesti- 
cated dogs are all smooth, and do not vary much in size, being 
about as large as our fox terriers. In colour they are either white, 
black, or brown, or black or white. They are intelligent, and show 
much affection and fidelity to their own masters. They are liable 
to hydrophobia, and when seized with it are at once killed. There 
is also a kind of wild dog, of smooth skin, reddish-brown colour, 
and a fox-like head and long ears. Dogs are the only animals 
which are trained. They prove of great use in hunting gazelles, 
buffaloes, and some small animals. 
Horses are unknown, and only very recently have a few asses 
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