E. C. BUXTON'S OBSERVATIONS. 149 



and answered the description and picture in Living- 

 stone's first book accurately. We were frequently bitten 

 by them : the bite was very sharp, and felt like a red-hot 

 iron run into the flesh, but it did not leave any mark or 

 inflammation. I caught several, but mislaid them some- 

 where, as I have been unable to find them. The dogs 

 were frequently bitten, and one of them went blind 

 within a week, and died in about a fortnight. The other 

 did not show illness for some time later ; and, as we left 

 him with some of our party, knew nothing more about 

 him than that he died. The fly appears only at certain 

 seasons, and in Limited localities. The head of a kraal, 

 about thirty miles distant from the point where we found 

 the Tsetse most abundant, told us at that time the fly was 

 not in his district, and pointed to a heifer and some goats, 

 which he said he intended to send away before the fly 

 season came on. There is a general opinion that the fly 

 is connected, in some way, with the larger game, elephants, 

 rhinoceros, etc., and some think that it breeds in their 

 dung ; but I never heard of any proof of this. Mr. 

 Erskine was the only person that I met with who 

 expressed any doubt about the Tsetse ; but, as I have not 

 seen his paper, I do not know why he doubts it. The fly 

 district nearest to Natal is about twenty days' journey 

 distant. Our horses and oxen we did not take into the 

 fly country at all." 



42. 1871. E. Mohr. 



" Eduard Mohr's Reisen im Inneren von SUd- 

 Afrika, von den Tate-Goldfeldern bis zum Zambesi 

 UND zuRiJCK NACH Natal, 20. Marz — 5. Dezember 1870 " 

 (Mittheilungen aus Justus Perthes' Geograpliischer Anstalt 

 iiber Wichtige Neue Erforschungen auf dem Gesammtgehiete 

 der Geograj}hie, von, Dr. A. Petermann. 17. Band, 

 p. 164). 



[Translation.] " Finally at two o'clock in the after- 

 noon of May 25th my waggon reached its most northerly 

 point at 19^ 10' 51" S. lat., and the manner and method 

 of my journeying thence to the Victoria Falls of the 

 Zambesi now underwent a change. Five nautical miles 

 further to the north the Tsetse-fly was encountered, not 

 in large swarms it is true, but nevertheless, singly, and it 



