THREE LIONS AND NO RIFLE! 



one expressed a desire to carry back the body to camp, 

 so I did not wait and trouble to have the thing skinned, 

 as we had already more than enough to carry without 

 collecting snake skins. 



I have often regretted that I did not bring away 

 many of the beautiful heads and horns of the great variety 

 of game bagged during this trip, but when on an elephant 

 trip you have to travel as light as possible to enable 

 greater distances to be covered. Until my friend and 

 I joined forces again at the Osso River, each of my 

 boys had to carry as much as he could possibly manage ; 

 but when the two camps were united it would be much 

 easier, as the loads could then be divided up between 

 our boys. 



The tsetse fly worried the mules at Wadelai, and 

 large fires had to be lit during the day to keep them away. 

 The tsetse fly is to be found chiefly on river banks, living 

 in the tall grass, from which it rarely follows man or beast 

 for more than half a mile. Not unlike the common house 

 fly but slightly larger, it can, when resting, easily be 

 identified by its wings, which are crossed or folded over 

 the back. I have frequently felt the needle-like lance 

 pierce my skin through a woollen vest and shirt. Little 

 or no irritation arises from their attack, as in the case of 

 a mosquito bite. The tsetse fly only troubled us in the 

 daytime, from about nine a.m. until five p.m. I captured 

 several specimens of this fly when at Wadelai, but, like 

 many other things, the box containing them was lost 

 in my encounter with the Legworo people later on. 



Sir Harry Johnston in his book, " George Grenfell 

 and the Congo," speaking of sleeping sickness, says : 

 " There is a tsetse fly — Glossina Palpalis — the probe of 

 which occasions a temporary smart, but which we now 

 know as one of the deadliest enemies of humanity, the agent 

 for introducing into the human system the trypanosome, 

 which, when it reaches the spinal marrow and the brain, 



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