APPENDIX XVI
Philip Askell Benton translation
BREEDS AND VARIETIES OF CATTLE, SHEEP AND GOATS[593]
Colours
Cattle.
White ox or cow bida
Coal-black balle (Koiyam, kolliu)
Black and white yāmi (Shuwa, yabbe)
Red hamra
Yellow ole
Strawberry roan boni
White belly saje
Deep red mera
Dapple grey bage
Goats.
White bullam, ke̥ri
Coal-black tselimma
Lightish black keara
Black and white kari
White with black neck mallam
White and red bururu, tosuno
Dapple grey kurguma
Sheep
White bida
Coal-black billa
White with black ears batinge
White bellied kordi
Speckled ngangala
Half white and half red or black wuda
Big ears and head bellani
White with black neck balo
Chestnut ke̥ngar
White tail and stern dubulu
Breeds
Cattle.
Bare—Big-horned Bornu cattle, no hump; derived from Arabic Bahr = water, because these cattle came from Chad.
Kuri—Ditto: name of tribe living in Chad.
Wadare—Small (wada = dwarf) humped, short-horned.
Jawai—Very small, short-legged, from Mandara.
Abore—Spreading horned, humped Fulani cattle.
Sheep.
Wagare—Large Bornu sheep.
Bellani—Big-headed, big-eared.
Wuda—Short-haired Asben sheep.
Yeriram—Long-haired sheep from the North: wool is manufactured.
Goats.
Kani Ke̥nji—Common Bornu goat.
Kani Tukshi—Long-haired goat.
Kani Musgu—Small, short-legged pagan goat.
Note. On p. 193 of the Appendix to Denham’s book, first edition, it is recorded that he brought home a pair of ox-horns measuring 42½ inches in length and 23¼ inches in circumference.