TSETSE NEAE PUNGWE EIVER. 209 



Gloss'ma morsitans, Westw., taken at Mbuziui, ia 

 Uzeouha, German East Africa, 27. viii. 1888, by Dr. 

 Fr. Stuhlmann. 



118. 1893. Major J. J. Leverson. 



" Geographical Results of the Anglo-Portugukse 

 Delimitation Commission in South-East Africa" [The 

 Geographical Journal, Vol. II. London : The Royal Geo- 

 graphical Society). 



Tsetse-fly on and near the Pungwe Biver, 1892. 



" When proceeding up-country from the Pungwe we 

 did not get clear of the Tsetse-fly till we reached Shiinoya's. 

 Thence to Massi-Kessi ox-waggons brought down from 

 Mashonaland were able to work along the road. South 

 of Massi-Kessi, the only place in which we came across 

 the fly was in the neighbourhood of the Sabi. Five 

 ponies which we took with us from Natal all died, or had 

 to be shot within six weeks of their landing at Beira. 

 We also lost from fly -bite every one of twelve oxen which 

 made the journey from Shimoya's to Mandigo's and back, 

 a section of the Beira Massi-Kessi road which till the 

 commencement of 1892 was believed to be free from fly " 

 (pp. 517-518). 



119. 1893. F. J. Jackson. 



Pall Mall Budget, February 23, 1893, p. 295. 



Notes, in an interview entitled " Uganda Once jNIore," 

 on the Tsetse-fly on the Teita-Kihioezi route to Uganda, in 

 1892-93. 



" Nearly the whole way is bush between Teita and 

 Kibwezi, in which there is very little fodder to be found, 

 and that of a coarse and very inferior kind. Further, as 

 you approach the Tsavo, after leaving Teita, you have to 

 pass through the Tsetse-fly country, and that continues 

 until you reach Kibwezi. The Tsetse is a small fly, rather 

 larger than the common house-fly, of a brown colour, with 

 a yellowish line down the centre of the body. This fly 

 attacks men and beasts both by day and night. It can 

 easily bite through khaki breeches or flannel pyjamas. 

 Where it exists — and it is extremely local — it appears in 

 much greater numbers on a dull or rainy day. Its bite in 

 man, though very sharp and needle-like, leaves no irrita- 

 tion, and it invariably chooses those parts that are shaded 



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