EDUAED MOHR'S OBSERVATIONS. ir.l 



" In the districts recently traversed we had often met 

 with the Tsetse-fly, and in some places swarms had flown 

 out of the bushes, inflicting their sharp burning stings 

 upon every member of the party ; but we were now * 

 passing out of its haunts, and its occurrence was rare, 

 although a short distance off there might still be thousands. 

 The in.sect flies rapidly, and stings as it settles on its 

 victim. The sharp sting penetrates easily through a 

 cotton shirt and flannel vest, but a severe momentary 

 itching is the only effect felt by a man ; no evil results 

 ensue. I managed to catch several, which I put into a 

 hollow bird's bone, closing the ends with resin, and subse- 

 quently gave them to my friend Dr. Hartmann,'j' of 

 Berlin, the African traveller. 



" Some travellers, Vincent Erskine | amongst others, 

 have recently called in question the fatal results to 

 domestic animals of the bite of the Tsetse ; but all the 

 natives of whatever race who have accompanied me on 

 my wanderings were agreed in accounting it poisonous, 

 and not one of them would have driven his own oxen or 

 horses into districts frequented by the GJossina mor^itans. 



" Moffat the missionary, who, accompanied by the 

 chief Mosilikatze, had wished to make his way to the 

 Zambesi in a north-westerly direction from the chief 

 kraal of the Matabele.s, had to abandon his design 

 through losing all his oxen in the Tsetse district, and only 

 saved his waggons through the intervention of the chief, 

 who made hundreds of the natives yoke themselves to 

 them, and draw them out of the wilderness " (pp. 352-353). 



53, 1877. Dr. Hartmann. 



Sitzmujs - Bcriclit der Gesellschaft naturforschender 

 Freunde zu Berlin vom 17. Jidi 1877, pp. 205-205. 



Report of a lecture by Herr Hartmann. — [Transla- 

 tion.] " Herr Hartmann further made some observations 

 on ttte Tsetse-fly. At his request the late traveller 

 Eduard Mohr had brought home and handed over to 

 him to work out a number of specimens of the true 

 Glossina morsitans.^ They had been caught, it was 

 stated, with the hand, by Mohr's people in the neighbour- 



* July 6, 1870, near the Denzue R., south of the Shangani : approxi- 

 mate latitude, 18'^ 55' 27" S.— E.E.A. 



t Cf. [53]. ; Cf. [38]. § Cf. [52]. 



