172 TSETSE IN TRANSVAAL AND ON E. CONGO. 



" Limpopo River, south side . . . Lat. 22° 37', long. 

 28° 38'. Height in feet, 1,935. Granite quartz, palms, 

 thorns, castor-oil plant, Tsetse-fly" (p. 171). 



*' Pass between Blaaweberg and Zoutpansberg through 

 Fly country, probably to Commando Drift, Limpopo River, 

 enquire for safe road of Der Venage or other hunters. . . . 

 Lat. 22° 20', long. 29° 10'. Height, 1,700 or 1,800" 

 (p. 173). 



Tsetse-fly (and fever) stated to be prevalent to the 

 south-east of Pretoriaskop, Transvaal : approximate posi- 

 tion, lat. 25° 12', long. 31° 31' (p. 182). [Period to 

 which this refers is probably the early 'seventies — up to 

 1874.] 



"The Tsetse-fly abounds in this low country nearly to 

 Pretoriaskop. Mr. Macdonald's expedition lost, I think, 

 114 oxen, and Mr. Arrowsmith reports a loss of fourteen. 

 Donkeys are generally safe, but not quite so here " (p. 183). 

 [This refers to a route from Pilgrim's Rest to Delagoa 

 Bay.] 



Patch of "fly " referred to in the author's itinerary 

 of his route from Walvisch Bay to Victoria Falls and 

 Logier Hill, Zambesi River, near Matietsie River ; lati- 

 tude 18° 20' (p. 187). 



Broad red sand hill, with mopani trees, and infested 

 by fly ; latitude 18° 30' (near Victoria Falls) (p. 187). 



56. 1878. H. M. Stanley. 



" Through the Dark Continent, or The Sources of 

 the Nile, Around the Great Lakes of Equatorial Africa, 

 and Down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean " 

 (London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington). 



Gad-(horse-)flies and Tsetse on the numerous low 

 islands helow Buhunga, on the Congo, and attacking the 

 members of the author's expedition descending the river 

 in their canoes and boat, February, 1877 (Vol. II., 

 p. 292). Position of Rubunga, according to the author 

 (ibid. p. 281), 1° 40' 44" N. lat., 21° 4' E. long. 



From the author's subsequent remarks, the expedition 

 seems to have been attacked by horse-flies and Tsetse 

 during its further course among the islands in this 

 portion of the Congo, at least as far as 1° 22' 15" S. lat. : 

 February, 1877 (Vol. II., p. 310). 



