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of iron, niiiiid iiiiil iHiiiittil like :i peg, ;iii(l his anvils W( ic lianl piiccs of stoiif. lie liail 

 (lono wi'll for hiiiisi-lf, us, liy maliiiig briicclets, lie liail a(i|uiii(l ciioiigli culllr In imv a wife. 



The iii'gotiiitioii for pinciiast' of liis apiJanitus WHS a long oiii-, iiml uiiioiigst other 

 iiifoniiatioii lie giivt- was a religious opinion far in ailvanee of anything I Iiad previously 

 fouml. lie thought the drougiit was due to tlu' evil liuing of mkii in tiie neiglihourhood, and 

 that the goodness of nun like himself was not sutlicient to proihiic tlie i-ain. 



I left ShaiidM' on 12th Mareh, having reeeived orders to loeate the lly Ixdts of the JJahr- 

 Kl-Cihazal, take blood films and eollect biting flies of all sorts. I had, however, to be soniu 

 (lays at Meslira, to try and find some eattle lik(dy to be suffering from piro|ila8musis, and to 

 start from tlnre on l-'ith April, 'i'lnis 1 had onjv time to hurry tlirough the eomitrv, and 

 that 1 made the best use of luy time is, 1 think, shown iiy the faet that I walker! some 

 4Ul) miles in twouty-seven days, intduding the distance from point to point. Results, 

 however, were necessarily poor. 



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I failed to fin<l "fly" near Sliaiiibi% iuit had no time e.xeept to walk straight ahead. It 

 ••Fly" found was not until I reached Balir-El-tJuk that 1 found any. This was about 5 miles up 

 the rivir from the station — undoubtedly Moi-Mtam [(ilomtinu) — though there appeared to 

 be none actually do.se to tiie station. Here I secured the fly. Fig. 21, p. 56, whicii is 

 the female of 7'ii/>i(iiiis /mr. I was informed tiiat all tlie cattle died off here last year with 

 what was thought to b;' lung disease of some sort. Here also I foiuid the government 

 convoy, and took the iilooil of the six draught cattle which looked well, but found no 

 parasite. 



This tallies to some extent with wliat the cliiefs wliom I i|nestioned at llmibek told me. 

 Tiuy said tiiat tliere was a large fly between that place and 'i'lmj, whicli did dannige to 

 cattle, and that all rattle died at (iok. They also volunteered the infornnition tliat there 

 was a cattle Jiestilence about 5 years ago, and that at the iiiniiient they were losing cattle. 

 which they ascribed to intercommunication* of cattle between there and Tonj. As '"flv" 

 will accompany cattle a long way out of u fly-belt I shoukl think their story may be 

 correct. 



They only eat their cattle when the latter die, as they are currency among them chielly 

 for wife-buying. This custom thus gives them opportunity for post-mortem examination, 

 and they say they find the heart enlarged and full of dot, anil a distended gall bladder. 

 They also state that in life the animal suffers from cough and diarrhcea, with stools like 

 water. 

 Native One of the .sheiks had large patches of leucoderma on his hands, which he said was due 



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to his having walked over his uncle's grave by mistake. This illustrates his ideas of the 

 origin of diseases. 



Hefore reaching Tonj, I slept the night about 5 miles frum that station and secured 

 another specimen of Mnrsilinis. In the morning ''fly" followed the caravan right into Tonj 

 and into the rest-house. In the afternoon I wanteil more specimens and sent out the Uganda 

 boy to catch them, but they were not to be had. Next morning I made a long inarch down 

 the river on the left bank but saw none. Eventually 1 had to march back to the camp 

 where I had previously found them, before I could see any. This shows how they exist only 



* Tbc QoTcrameat bullock w.kggoa ruiis rcguliirly botweuii tlieso plaocD, I uuderstaad. 



