THE KILIMA-NJARO EXPEDITION. 
wide-spread horns. On the Kunene river (South-west 
Africa, latitude 17° S.) I have met with the two breeds 
side by side—the big, long-horned and the small, 
humped cattle. In Angola there is a mingling of the 
two. On the Gold Coast and the Oil rivers I have 
only seen the small, humped variety, though I am told 
farther inland the other appears. Whence this long¬ 
horned, straight-backed, large-sized ox (which is nor¬ 
mally a dun-brown) came from, I am at a loss to say. 
Of course it was not African in its origin, as in Africa 
there is not, nor, as far as we know, has there been, a 
wild ox of the genus Bos. Yet this last breed—which 
much resembles the Hungarian and South European 
(Spanish) cattle, was evidently an early introduction 
into .Africa, for in many districts it appears to have 
preceded the humped kind. It was the only breed the 
Hottentots possessed. It seems to be very much kept 
by the populous nations in the interior of South Central 
Africa, between the Congo and Zambezi. 
The Masai have a word for the pig which is also 
common to their distant relatives on the Nile (vide 
Vocabulary), but they do not keep it in a domestic con¬ 
dition. The term for pig is used to indicate the wild 
wart-hog (Phacochcerus ). 
Their goats are those of East Africa generally, a 
small, plump variety. They possess two breeds of 
sheep, only one of which I have seen. This is the 
hairy, fat-tailed sheep, with short horns. The other I 
judge from report to resemble the tall, big-horned, 
chest-maned, domestic sheep of Central and Western 
Africa (vide illustration, p. 428 of my book, “ The 
Biver Congo”). The common fat-tailed sheep is 
called En-gera, and the long-horned kind El-merekes, 
or El-kiries. 
