GAME SCARCITY IN E. AFEICAN FLY-BELTS. 217 



127. 1894. F- J. Jackson. 



"Big Game Shooting," Vol. I., pp. 185-186 {The 

 Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes. London : 

 Longmans, Green &. Co.). 



No reason why horses should not be more generally 

 employed in East Africa, " provided the belts of ' fly ' 

 country are avoided " (p. 185). 



Tsetse-fly in East Africa not closely associated with big 

 game. — " It is supposed by a good many people that the 

 Tsetse-fly only exists where game beasts, especially 

 bufialoes, are most plentiful, and that the fly disappears 

 as the game is killed off or driven away. This may be so 

 in South Africa, but it is certainly not the case in East 

 Africa, as the belts of fly country in East Africa are 

 almost devoid of game, with the exception of the river 

 Tana. As, however, the open, undulating, grassy plains 

 of the Masai country, and other places of a like nature, 

 are the headquarters of by far the greatest quantity and 

 variety of game, and are entirely free from the Tsetse-fly, 

 and as they are also well adapted to hunting on horse- 

 back, the game would very soon be exterminated if 

 pursuit on horseback were permitted ..." (pp. 185-186). 



128. 1894. W. Cotton Oswell. 



"Big Game Shooting," Vol. I., pp. 113-115, 147, 150 

 (The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes. London : 

 Longmans, Green & Co.). 



" On the low Siloquana hills [in the north of the 

 Transvaal, between the Magalaqueen River and the 

 Limpopo] near this we made our acquaintance with the 

 Tsetse-fly, which we were the first to bring to notice 

 [the year referred to is 1845] ; Vardon taking or sending 

 to England some he caught on his favourite horse." — 

 Symptoms and eflfects of the bite of the fly on cattle 

 (p. 113). 



" Wild animals are not affected, but all domestic ones 

 are, save the ass and the goat, and the calf as long as it 

 sucks. Man escapes scot free. The flies settle on him 

 and bite him sharply, but no results follow" (pp. 113-114). 



"This pest, like all others, is held in check by an 

 antagonist, one of the ichneumons — a rakish-looking crea- 

 ture which catches and sucks it out on the wing, dropping 



