TSETSE ON HIGH GEOUND. 239 



Tsstse-fly numerous. — " In the morning of the following 

 day [Dec, 26, 1895] camp was struck, and I travelled 

 through a country still pleasant, but not quite so useful- 

 looking as that through which I had passed during the 

 preceding few days. The Tsetse-fly became much more 

 numerous, and the native population very sparse. In the 

 evening, after travelling seventeen miles and crossing two 

 Machili tributaries, I camped on a third, the Nanyate, at 

 some distance from its source — probably ten or twelve 

 miles" (p. 225). 



Camp on rising ground in mopani swamps near the 

 Nanzela River (an affluent of the Kafukwe) ; approximate 

 position, from the author's map, 16° 29' S., 26° 5 E. — "On 

 turning out next morning [Dec. 30, 1895] a large herd of 

 wildebeest was to be seen standing about 200 yards from 

 the tent, gazing intently at what to them must have been 

 quite phenomenal. . . . The Tsetse here were very trouble- 

 some, and for some little time after sunset went for us so 

 boldly that I was able to consign many of them to my 

 collecting-tube " (p. 228). 



Tsetse-flu '^^'''V troublesome on high ground to the south 

 of the head-waters of the Nanyate : approximate position, 

 from the authors map, 16° 57' 1" S., 26° 4' E.— "The next 

 day — the 21st of February [1896] — I camped on the 

 highest point of the plateau traversed ; my observations 

 made it 4110 feet above the sea-level. The Tsetse-fly had 

 been very troublesome on this high ground, which at this, 

 the wet season, is as a rule teeming with game ; but so 

 deadly had the rinderpest proved itself that only once had 

 game been seen since leaving Bisi. Deprived of the blood 

 of beasts, they collected themselves and attacked the boys 

 and myself to some tune" (p. 326). 



153. 1898. Captain the Hon. Arthur Lawley. 



"From Buluwayo to the Victoria Falls " {5Z«cZ;- 

 woods Magazine, Dec. 1898, p. 748). 



" Before the rinderpest, this neighbourhood [the banks 

 of the Deka, an affluent of the Zambesi] was wonderfully 

 rich in aU sorts of game, which seemed to have suffered 

 more here from the plague than in any other part of 

 Matabele-land. The buffalo has entirely disappeai-ed, the 

 koodoo (formerly very plentiful) are almost extinct, and 



