206 TSETSE ON MO-NJEKO PJVEE. 



Abundance of Tsetse on the Mo-Njeho, near Masosa 

 Village, August 7th, 1886. — "I had started about half- 

 past five in the morning, and it must have been about 

 two o'clock when I reached theMo-NjekOjand soon after- 

 wards the little village on the south (right) bank. 

 Nowhere had I yet beheld so many Tsetse-flies as here. 

 On sitting down by the margin of the Mo-Njeko river — 

 the current was only very slight — and bathing my feet in 

 the clear water, I scarcely had time to keep the Tsetse- 

 flies off poor Daisy, who this time had accompanied me. 

 That Daisy did not succumb to the bites of the Tsetse is 

 doubtless due to the fact that previously on the Limpopo 

 he had thrice eaten meat poisoned with strychnine " 

 (p. 398). 



Gazungula to Shoshong, 29tJi November, 1886, to 11th 

 February, 1887-^Sickening and subsequent death of 

 27 oxen from Tsetse-fly disease ; serious illness of re- 

 mainder (pp. 483, et seq.). 



111. 1891. Major Gaetano Casati. 



"Ten Years in Equatoria" (London and New York: 

 Frederick Warne & Co.), Vol. I., p. 234. 



Tsetse-fly in the Mambettu Country, west of Lake 

 Albert Nyanza, south of the Niam Niam Country, and 

 north of the Nowelle or Aruwimi River. 



" Cattle cannot be successfully reared by the Mambettu 

 on account of a fly called Tsetse, the stings of which cause 

 death. . . ." (p. 234). Reduced copies of Westwood's 

 figures of fly and mouth parts. 



112. 1891. E. A. Maund. 



" On Matabele and Mashona Lands " (Proceedings 

 of the Boyal Geographical Society and Monthly Mecord of 

 Geography. New Monthly Series. Vol. XIII.). 



* ' Three scoui"ges farmers have to combat : lung-sickness 

 ajQong cattle, horse-sickness, and the Tsetse-fly. . . . 

 The Tsetse-fly, whose bite is so deadly to domestic 

 cattle, wiU disappear with the game. The Transvaal, 

 since the game has been so shot out, is now nearly free 

 from this pest. The Mashonas dry and pound the fly, 

 and give it to their dogs, a fly a day, as a safeguard 

 against the effects of it" (pp. 11-12)., 



