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classes of animals. It has been found that by taking 

 special pi-ecautions and making applications of sheep-dip 

 the mortality was to a certain extent reduced, and in the 

 cases of mules it was only 10 per cent, during the last six 

 months of the year " (p. 3). 



With reference to the above, and especially the state- 

 ment in the first-quoted paragraph as to "the country in 

 parts being infested with Tsetse-fly as far as mile 220," the 

 following extract from p. 2 of the Report will be of interest 

 as describing the country referred to : — 



" Of the entire length (263 miles) of line surveyed, it 

 may be said that, at least, 200 are through difficult 

 country. Except for small rivers met with at long inter- 

 vals, the country is waterless and covered with dense 

 impenetrable thorny scrub, while the surface is much 

 broken and intersected with ravines. 



" This belt of country, extending inland 200 miles, is, 

 therefore, one through which survey operations could only 

 be carried out under circumstances of considerable diffi- 

 culty and hardship. Beyond the belt the country is 

 more open. 



" Mr. Hodson, attached to the Indian Public Works 

 Department, who made an inspection of the railway as 

 far as mile 100, states in his report as follows : ' The 

 country it traverses is almost continuous thorny jungle 

 with but few inhabitants and no cultivation, much of it 

 practically waterless ; the jungle is thorny scrub, high 

 enough and thick enough to make surveying, and even 

 exploring, off the regular track of the caravans, a very 

 arduous undertaking, but devoid of all trees with foliage 

 sufficient to give any appreciable shade.' " 



156. 1898. G. de N. Hough. 



Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 .Philadelphia, 1898, p. 172. 



Two females of Glossina longipennis, Corti, collected in 

 Somali Land by Dr. A. Donaldson Smith, August 19 and 

 24, 1894. 



157. 1898. 



"The Secret of the Tsetse" (The Globe, July 11, 

 1898). 



"A mysterious illness which has played havoc with 



