T8ETSE AND TJJAN.SVAAL GOLD-FIELDS. 171 



restore tone to the blood with muriate of iron when I 

 reached Mr. Hartley's farm, but it was theu too late. 



" Mr. Saunders, of Maghaliesberg, saved a horse with 

 Croft's tincture of life, which contained ammonia, and two 

 oxen with Perry Davis's pain killer. They stood for three 

 or four days with foam issuing from their mouths, as if the 

 poisonous matter were being thus ejected. After this 

 they began to eat voraciously and recovered their condi- 

 tion. Perhaps if milk could be given to animals as soon 

 as they are stuck they might I'ecover " (pp. 151-154). 



•* The dangers, however, of the Delagoa Bay route [to 

 the Transvaal gold-fields] would be more efficiently met 

 by the construction of a good road, with the bush cleared 

 away as far as possible on either side, in the fly country, 

 leaving the unhealthy lowlands as soon as possible, and 

 climbing any elevated ridge, the course of which (even at 

 the cost of considerably increased distance) might be 

 followed to the highlands, so that man and beast might be 

 as little as possible exposed to fly or fever " (p. 154). 



" In the Colonist of June 19th we are informed that 

 Mr. Isidore Alexandre has brought an ox wagon down 

 from the gold-fields to Delagoa Bay in nine days, and 

 others are to follow. There has been no loss among the 

 oxen. I would fain hope the best for Mr. Alexandre, 

 but I shall watch with great interest the future history 

 of these animals. We know that in cold weather the 

 fly is less virulent, but it never ceases to be dangerous " 

 (p. 155). 



" The Gold Regions of South-Eastern Africa." 

 Distances and Routes. 



"Tables of Distances by Trocheameter — Latitudes and 

 Longitudes (astronomical or computed) — Heights above 

 the sea-level, and other observations, from Port Natal to 

 the Ganyana River, via Hartley's, or the Potchefstroom, 

 Rustenberg, and Tati route, free from Tsetse-fly ; and 

 return route through the Fly country, via Magholiquain 

 River and Makapan's Poort. During the years 1869, 

 1870, 1871, and 1872. By Thomas Baines^ F.R.G.S." 

 (p. 164). 



" The Tsetse-fly extends from south-east of Maghali- 

 quain [River] to Shasha " (p. 171). 



