180 TSETSE AT VICTORIA FALLS. 



Guinea fowl""' (Numida meJcagris), which were in greater 

 numbers than I had hitherto seen in Africa. I also found, 

 to my sorrow, that the Tzee-tzee-fly was quite as abundant 

 as the birds ; it troubled me excessively in the forest with 

 its sharp sting, which, however painful, is not dangerous 

 to man ; and these insects were so numerous and pursued 

 me so inveterately that, after I had again got into the boat, 

 I had for some time to do battle with them." 



73. 1881. F. Gates. 



" Matabele Land and the Victoria Falls " (London : 

 C. Kegan Paul & Co.), 1st edition ; Plate G, fig. 2 ; 

 Plate H, figs. 5, 5a, 5b. 



Tsetse-fly at the Victoria Falls (1873).—" He [the Hon. 

 G. C. Dawnay] showed me some little sketches he had 

 made [of the Victoria Falls], but said it was almost 

 impossible to draw on account of the flies. The Tsetse-fly, 

 which kills everything, except men, wild beasts, and 

 donkeys, swarms there, and bites so furiously that your 

 hands and face are puffed up in no time " (p. 3S). 



" He [a Transvaal Boer, named Lee] has tried donkeys 

 in the Tsetse-fly country, but the fly has always killed 

 them" (p. 48). 



Notes by J. 0. Westwood (pp. 363-365). See 74. 



74. 1881. J. O. Westwood. 



Oates' Matabele Land and the Victoria Falls, 1st ed., 

 Appendix, pp. 363-365, Plate G, fig. 2 ; Plate H, figs. 5, 

 5a, 5b (2nd ed., 1889, pp. 388-389, Plate VII., fig. 2 ; 

 Plate IX., figs. 5, 5a, 5b). 



Copy of the letter by Lewis Homor, in the Times, of 

 Feb. 25, 1879 (see 64) (1st ed., p. 364). 



** The Afi'ican traveller Hildebrandt recommends 

 strongly, in the Korrespondenzhlatt der afrik. Gesellschaft, 

 the use of petroleum for those travelling in the tropics, as a 

 protection against insects. Occasional applications to the 

 face and hands ensured entire freedom from mosquitoes, and 

 the same method sufliced to preserve horses and cattle against 

 the deadly attacks of the Dondorobo gad-fly, which so often 

 cripples the movements of the explorer" (1st ed., p. 364). 



Coloured figure (enlarged) of Gl. morsitans, and details 

 of antenna, mouth-parts, and last joint of tai'sus. 



* By an obvious slip tho word here in the text is " partridges." — E. E. A. 



