One, called the Batoka, because captured from that tribe, is of diminutive size, but very beautiful, and closely resembles the short-horns of our own country.
The little pair presented by the King of Portugal to H.R.H.the prince consort, is of this breed.

They are very tame, and remarkably playful; they may be seen lying on their sides by the fires in the evening; and, when the herd goes out, the herdsman often precedes them, and has only to commence capering to set them all a gamboling.

The meat is superior to that of the large animal.

The other, or Barotse ox, is much larger, and comes from the fertile Barotse Valley.

They stand high on their legs, often nearly six feet at the withers; and they have large horns.
Those of one of a similar breed that we brought from the lake measured from tip to tip eight and a half feet.
The Makololo are in the habit of shaving off a little from one side of the horns of these animals when still growing, in order to make them curve in that direction and assume fantastic shapes.