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in providing food for our carriers, as we did not see twenty 

 head of game on the journey, and were constantly compelled 

 to keep the shot-guns going to supply any sort of l)ir(l which 

 offered a shot, in order to get meat. 



Yet on the outward journey we saw no tsetse, notwithstand- 

 ing the large amount of game encountered, though in the 

 sand veld and low, scrubby thorn-bush passed though on our 

 return there were thousands of tsetse, and a small terrier dog 

 belonging to my friend was bitten and died on the I2th day of 

 the return journey. 



Major Stevenson Hamilton, late Warden, Transvaal Game 

 Reserves, had an almost similar experience a few years later, 

 when with Mr. C. F. Maugham, H.B.M. Consul at Delagoa Bay, 

 he marched through the Mozambique Province along a route 

 some distance to the north of the route taken by me. 



Both in his work on the Game of Africa, and also in the 

 Billletin of Entomological Research, lyii, July, pp. ii 1-118, he 

 has remarked upon the prevalence of the tsetse in the almost 

 complete absence of game. Mr. Maugham has personally ex- 

 pressed himself to me upon the same subject in like terms, but 

 in this instance I believe there was not, as in our case, any 

 recorded proof of the infectivity of the fly. 



I must dismiss very briefly the question of the sup- 

 ]josed occurrence of another form of trypanosomal disease in 

 Zululand, known as " Munca." I have always considered it to 

 be a different form to that of Nagana, and most natives clearly 

 distinguish between the two, while some say the word merely 

 indicates the same disease. 



It is pathogenic to domestic stock, though a])i)arent!y in a 

 less degree than Nagana. 



Mr. Mitchell, who describes it as a " chronic form oi Na- 

 gana." puts forward a very interesting suggestion, vie. that 

 po.'^sibly this milder form may be Nagana reduced in virulence 

 by passage through the smaller antelopes. 



Upon the subject of the possibility of Sleeping Sickness 

 being introduced by the tsetse-fly into Zululand. 1 would merely 

 point out that, as far as I am aware, Glossiiia palpalis, which 

 transmits the human trypanosome, is not foiuid in the country. 

 Neither, J believe, is morsitans, althottgh the bush in the 

 Ubombo Low Country, of a xen)])hilous natm"e. would seem to 

 be suitable to their habits. 



In conclusion, the rei)ort to which so many references have 

 l)een made, carries us a ste]) further on the way to complete 

 knc^wledge of the association between game and the tsetse-fly 

 in Zululand, and th(~)Ugh to my mind, it is not altogether convinc- 

 ing, ])artly on account of the echo I catch here and there of 

 time-worn Zululand ])latitu(les, and also on account of its being 

 inconclusive in respect of souie important points, this latter is 

 doubtless due to the insufhcient time at the Officer's disposal, in 

 which to have completed his work. 



l-)Ut it has at least cleared the air somewhat, and lias given 

 the .\dniinistration a basis uijon which to \.vork. 



