246 COACHmG ENTERPRISE RUINED BY TSETSE. 



A female of Glossina longijpennis, Corti, taken in West 

 Somali Land, between June 23 and 25, 1895, by Mr. 

 C. V. A. Peel. 



" Mr. Peel's note on this specimen says : — ' Ply-belt 

 sharply deJSned from Biermuddo to Boholo Deno ' ' ' 

 [vide supra, 163]. 



165. 1900. H. A. Bi-yden. 



" Animals of Africa " (London : Sands & Co.), pp. 

 228-230. 



A line of coaches, estahlislied some years ago to run from 

 the Pungwe Miver towards Mashonaland, abandoned owing 

 to the Tsetse-fly. — " It is a rather curious fact that 

 wherever the African buffalo is plentiful, there you will 

 almost certainly find the Tse-tse-fly. As the buffaloes are 

 killed out or driven away the Tse-tse disappears, and 

 horses and oxen can be introduced. It is supposed by 

 many that the Tse-tse is bred in the dung of the wild 

 buffalo, which would, of course, account for its presence in 

 districts where buffaloes are abundant. This is a very 

 troublesome and a very costly insect for African explorers, 

 hunters, and settlers. Many thousands of pounds must 

 have been lost by its ravages, and vast districts remain 

 unopened owing to the presence of this dangerous pest. 

 Some few years since, when Rhodesia was first being 

 opened up, an attempt was made to run a line of coaches 

 from the Pungwe River, on the East Coast, towards 

 Mashonaland. Splendid American coaches were imported 

 and plenty of fine horses and mules got out. But the 

 Tse-tse-fly beat this spirited enterprise. The horses and 

 mules died, the attempt had to be abandoned, and the 

 coaches still lie rotting in the Avilderness. In its turn, 

 however, I am glad to say, the deadly Tse-tse has been 

 overcome by the railway " (pp. 229-230). 



166. 1901. Sir H. H. Johnston, K.C.B. 



"Report by His Majesty's Special Commissioner 

 ON THE Protectorate of Uganda." With Map. Pre- 

 sented to both Houses of Parliament by command of His 

 Majesty. July, 1901. London : Printed for His Majesty's 

 Stationery Office by Harrison & Sons, St. Martin's Lane, 

 Printers in Ordinary to Her late Majesty. 



" The journey from Mombasa on the east coast to the 



