224 ENCOUNTER WITH SWARMS OF TSETSE. 



Sicarms of Tsetse on the Kapotche Bwer. — " The momen- 

 tary sense of comfort experienced in this wood was very 

 quickly forgotten ; never had I seen round us such swarms 

 of Tsetse ; it was simple torment and it was impossible to 

 remain seated. The accursed insects seemed to be parti- 

 cularly infuriated with us, and each one of the 200 men 

 had a large detachment to himself. 



" I found it impossible to breakfast ; one was bitten 

 on the arms, legs, neck — in twenty different places at 

 once. I had with me a tame goat, who was very amusing. 

 . . . The poor beast died under a swarm of Tsetse, in 

 the space of an hour : maddened by the bites, he had 

 begun by rolling on the ground, then foam gathered on 

 his lips, his belly became swollen, and, when I noticed 

 what was happening, he was already dying. 



" After a few hasty mouthfuls, I caused the camp to 

 be struck and everyone was very glad to be off. Never 

 had I seen so many Tsetse together in the same spot. This 

 must be their village, as Maonda said. We left there the 

 body of my goat, whose sufferings I had terminated by a 

 knife-thrust " (pp. 220-221). 



136. 1896. W. F. H. Blandford. 



" The Tsetse-Fly Disease " (Nature, No. 1381, Vol. 5.3, 

 April 16, 1896, pp. 566-568, Figs. 1 and 2 : wood-cuts of 

 Glossina sp., larva, puparium, and hjematozoa of Nagana 

 in the blood of a horse). 



A review of Surgeon-Major Bruce's Preliminary Beport 

 on the Tsetse-jiy Disease, or Nagana, in Zululand. — [^Vide 

 supra, 131.] 



137. 1896. 



The Field, April 11, 1896. An article on the 

 Tsetse-fly. 



[I have not seen this.] 



138, 1896. Sir Harry Johnston, K.C.B. 



Report by Commissioker Sir Harry Johnston, 

 K.C.B. , ON THE Trade and General Condition of the 

 British Central Africa Protectorate. April 1, 1895, 

 to March 31, 1896. [With a Map.] Presented to both 

 Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty. 

 August, 1896. (London : Printed for Her Majesty's 



