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WANT OF CATTLE. 
Chap. XXIX. 
leprosy common in this quarter, though they are a cleanly people. 
They never had cattle. The chiefs father had always lived in 
their present position, and, when I asked him why he did not 
possess these useful animals, he said, ‘‘Who would give us the 
medicine to enable us to keep them ? ” I found out the reason 
afterwards in the prevalence of tsetse, but of this he was ignorant, 
having supposed that he could not keep cattle because he had 
no medicine. 
