186 IMMUNITY OF GOATS. 



looking objects I ever saw belonging to the canine race — 

 emaciated, small, and the hair standing straight up all 

 over them. Goats, like all game, get fat and do not seem 

 to mind it. In fact, the Kaffirs keep large flocks in the 

 fly districts near the ' Victoria Falls,' on the north bank 

 of the river, 



" Unless bitten by several Tsetse, animals do not show- 

 any symptoms in particular until the rains fall. Then 

 oxen especially get emaciated and weak rapidly, much 

 weaker than they would be if in the same condition from 

 poverty alone. The hair stands, the eyes water and have 

 a dull fishy look, the nose also waters, occasionally the 

 feet swell, also the jaw and sometimes under the belly, 

 and the skin has a wrinkled appearance about the hind 

 quarters. If inspanned they soon knock up and lie down 

 in the yoke, and even if, as seldom happens, an ox recovers, 

 he is never good for anything for at least three years, and 

 then cannot do much work in a hot sun " (p. 53). 



" Many traders have told me they believe one fly is 

 sufficient to kill an ox, and natives say that if an animal 

 is bitten slightly at one time, it is not a preventative 

 against death if bitten at a future period " (p. 55). 



[Some of the foregoing statements are reproduced in 

 the paper by the same author entitled " Notes on the 

 Chobe River, South Central Africa " : Proc. Boy. Geogr. 

 Soc, Vol. III., April, 1881, p. 212.] 



78. 1882. E. C. Hore. 



"Lake Tanganyika" {Proceedings of the Boyal 

 Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography. 

 New Monthly Series. Vol. IV., pp. 1-2, 14-15). 



Transport by hulloclc wagons, tried for the first time in 

 Central Africa in connection with the London Missionary 

 Society's pioneer expedition in 1877, a failure owing to 

 the Tsetse-fly. 



" Road to the LaJce. — The road we were to take, though 

 parallel to some extent with what might be called the old 

 road used by Cameron and Stanley, was in fact almost 

 entirely new. The portions from Saadani to Mpwapwa, 

 avoiding the Makata swamp, were taken on the recom- 

 mendation of Mr. Koger Price,* who had made a pre- 



* Cf. [54]- 



