134 BUSHMAN EEMEDY FOE TSETSE-BITE. 



the path, and as usual in such places, the asses were tor- 

 inented by the Tzetze " (Vol. I., p. 289). 



Tsetse-fly (apparently) in Unyamwezi (to the east of Lake 

 Tanganyika).^ — ■" The Arabs describe a fly which infests 

 the forest-patches of Unyamwezi ; it is about the size of 

 a small wasp, and is so fatal that cattle attacked by it are 

 at once killed and eaten before the}' become carrion from 

 its venomous effects" (Vol. II., pp. 18-19). 



For localities, sec Map at the end of Vol. II. 



26a. 1862. Dr. (now Sir) John Kirk. 



Repoet ox the Natural Products and Capabilities 

 OF THE Shire and Lower Zambesi Valleys. By John 

 Kirk, Botanist to the Livingstone Expedition. Dated 

 Senna, Dec. 28th, 1860 {Proceedings of the Royal Geo- 

 graphical Society of London, Vol. VI., p. 29). 



" The Tsetse-fly is unknown among the hills, and very 

 rare in the Upper Shire Valley on the eastern side. In 

 the lower valley, however, it is the natural accompaniment 

 of the large herds of elephants which inhabit the grass 

 plains and marshes." 



26. 1864. Thomas Baines.* 



" Explorations in South-West Africa " (London : 

 Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts and Green), pp. 255, 

 351, 469, 470-471, 511. 



Bushman remedy for Tseise-hiie. — " On a former occa- 

 sion a Bushman gave Chapman a remedy for the bite of 

 the Tsetse ; it seemed to be a parasitic plant growing 

 either in the hollow of a tree or between the wood and 

 the bark. Chapman thought it acted by restoring to the 

 blood the iron of which pei-haps the bite of the fly depiived 

 it, but he sent it home with other specimens by a friend, 

 and has not yet heard any report on it '' (p. 255). 



Tsetse on the Teoge JRiver, a tributary of Lake Ngami 

 from the north (1862). — "This is not unlikely to be the 

 Teoge River, and if so, it would not do to take the cattle 

 near it on account of the fly " (p. 351). 



Tsetse on the Zimhoya Micer, a tributary of the 

 Matietsie River, south-west of Victoria Falls (July, 

 1862). — ". . . we were riding on the track by which 



* Baines accompauiod Chapmnn in his travels. 



