190 CATTLE ON LOWER CONGO. 



poor beast just outside, his neck over the medicine-chest. 

 In his dire need he had crawled from his own quarters 

 all the way to my tent. I could do nothing for him ; 

 the Tsetse had done their work " (p. 289). 



80. 1882. Dr. E. Pechuel-Loesche. 



"Die Loango -Expedition." Dritte Abtheilung, 

 Erste Htilfte (Leipzig : Paul Frohberg), p. 299. 



Tsetse-fly (? species) collected near Tschintschotscho 

 (a town on the coast about 100 miles north of the mouth 

 of the Congo).* But a small herd of cattle is kept at 

 Landana (a short distance south of Tschintschotscho) and 

 a larger one at Boma (on the north bank of the Congo, 

 near its mouth), and the animals roam about freely and 

 thrive tolerably well, so that the fly cannot occur in those 

 districts [or else the hsematozoon of Tsetse-fly disease is 

 absent.]! 



Reference to the failure of the attempt on the part of 

 the Expedition to introduce cattle as beasts of burden 

 [Cp. 65A]. 



Dr. Pechuel-Loesche mentions the general absence of 

 cattle throughout by far the greater part of Lower 

 Guinea ; only to the south of the Kuansa River do they 

 become domestic animals in the hands of the natives. 



81. 1883. F. L. James. 



" The Wild Tribes of the Soudan. An account of 

 Travel and Sport chiefly in the Base Country, being 

 Personal Experiences and Adventures dui'ing Three 

 Winters spent in the Soudan" (London : John Murray), 

 pp. 128-129. 



A disease of camels called hy the natives guflfer, said hi/ 

 some of them to he caused hy the Tsetse-fly. (The distinct 

 referred to is that to the east of Kassala.) 



" There is a disease, very common amongst them 

 [i.e., camels], which the natives call the guffer. A¥e were 

 never able to clearly make out what this disease was. 

 Some of the Arabs declared it was catching ; others that 

 it was not ; but all said that a number of the camels we 

 had bought on the Atbara were suffering from it when 

 they were bought. Whenever we had to complain of any 

 of the camel-drivers having, through negligence, allowed 



* Cp. [65, 65A.] t Cp. [99]. 



