174 TSETSE-FLY ON EOAD TO MPWAPWA. 



Tanganyika is " due to Tsetse or to the rank wet vegeta- 

 tion of the lower country " (H. B. Cotterill, in above 

 volume, p. 404). 



60. 1879. Sir Rutherford Alcock, K.C.B. 



Address on the Opening of the 48th Session of 

 THE Royal Geographical Society, November 11, 1878 

 (Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and 

 Monthly Becord of Geography. New Monthly Series. 

 Vol. I., p. 2). 



Destruction hy the Tsetse-fly "on the road to Mpwapwa" 

 of the draught cattle belonging to a parly sent hy the London 

 Missionary Society to Lalte TanganyiJca. \Cf. 78.] 



61. 1879. Dr. Laws. 



" Journey along Part of the Western Side of Lake 

 Nyassa, in 1878" (Proceedings of the Bm/al Geographical 

 Society and Monthly Becord of Geography. New Monthly 

 Series. Vol. I.). 



Cattle-destroying fiy (? Tsetse) in the valley of the 

 Limpassa (an affluent of the Bivrr Lncia, tchich flous into 

 the Lalce at Makamhira). 



" One place here, called Mudaye, presents what is 

 probably the best place we have seen in the district, with 

 an elevation of 800 or 900 feet above the lake. There is 

 the great drawback, however, that a fly is reported to 

 exist in the lower part of the plain, which if not the 

 Tsetse, resembles it by its bite killing cattle. The speci- 

 men of the fly shown to us was not the Tsetse, but belongs 

 to the blood-sucking tribe. The Mangone had at one 

 time lived in the hollows, but removed further up the 

 hills to save their cattle" (p. 317). 



62. 1879. 



" The Dar-es-Salaam Road " (Proceedings of the Boyal 

 Geographical Society and Monthly Becord of Geography. 

 New Monthly Series. Vol. I. (Geographical Notes), p. 129). 



Tsetse-fly absent from the first forty miles of the road 

 inland from Dar-es-Salaam. 



" Mr. Beardall, formerly of the Universities' Rovuma 

 Mission, left England, on the 28th of November [1878], 

 to take charge of the works irx col^Qection with the road 

 now making from Dar-es-Salaam to the interior of Eastern 



