CONTENTS 



Introduction 



PA.OE 



ix 



Preface. By Professor E. B. Poulton, F.R.S. 



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CHAPTER 



I. Sleeping Sickness . . . . . 



Symptoms — Ancient description — History of the 

 introduction of the Uganda epidemic — The 

 Rhodesian disease 



II. Natural History op Sleeping Sickness . 

 Trypanosomes, Tse-tse flies, and game 



11 



III. Natural History of Glossina palpalis 



30 



IV. The Lake . . . . . .67 



Geographical data — Scenery — Weather — A storm — 

 Weather prophets — Noises of the night 



V. Canoes and a Voyage . . . .84 



Description of the Sesse canoe, and a voyage to 

 the southernmost islands of Sesse 



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