BOER MODE OF CROSSING FLY-BELTS. 175 



Africa. . . . Eight out of the ten bullocks brought fi'oni 

 Madagascar are doing good service on the road, and it is 

 therefore clear there is no Tsetse-fly on the forty miles 

 already traced of the route ;...." 



63. 1879. 



'* The African Insect Scourge. The Tsetse-Fly " 

 {The Journal of Applied Science, Vol. X., May, 1879, 

 pp. 74-75). 



[I have not seen this paper.] 



64. 1879. Lewis Hornor. 



The Times, Feb. 25, 1879. — A letter recommending 

 the Boer method of crossing fly-belts at night (quoted by 

 Westwood in Gates' " Matabele Land and the Victoria 

 Falls," First Edition (1881), Appendix, p. 364; Second 

 Edition (1889), p. 388). 



" Having hunted in the African fly country and seen 

 many horses and oxen die of the bite, against which no 

 external application is, I firmly believe, any safeguard, I 

 venture to call attention to the precautions adopted by 

 the Boer elephant hunters in the interior. The Tsetse 

 inhabits narrow and clearly defined strips of country, 

 familiar to all natives, and readily evident to strangers. 

 On approaching one of these ' fly belts ' (so called) a halt 

 is made, and inspanning again at sundown the Boer treks 

 through at night in safety. I only remember one case of 

 mishap, when, in crossing a belt near the confluence of 

 the Chobe and Zambesi, two or three oxen out of nearly 

 forty were bitten, and that, if my memory serves me, on 

 a bright moonlight night." 



65. 1879. F. Karsch. 



Zeitschrift fiir die gesammten Naturwissenschaften, LIT. 

 Band, p. 381. 



Glossina longipalpis, Wied. taken at Chinchoxo, in 

 Loango, by Dr. Falkenstein.* [Chinchoxo, or Tschin- 

 tschotscho, is a town on the coast about 100 miles north 

 of the mouth of the Congo.] 



C5a. 1879. Dr. J. Falkenstein. 



" Die Loango - Expedition." Zweite Abtheilung, 

 (Leipzig : Paul Frohberg), p. 84. 



* Cf. [654 and 80]. 



