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poison to certain animals, or to inoculate the horse-sickness 

 that is caused by plasmodia — rather may the most widely 

 diflfei-ent biting-flies, midges, etc, provide for an occa- 

 sional transference of fever bacteria. Just as the latter 

 under definite conditions of life develop into definite 

 forms, so also will the poison occasion special sickness 

 symptoms in the case of the different animals. In South 

 Africa it is supposed that the donkey and the Quagga 

 [sic] escape the horse-sickness, but that observation in no 

 way guarantees that the same is also the case in East 

 Africa. It is also not impossible in the case of other 

 forms of bacteria, that at certain times, in certain districts, 

 and under all kinds of apparently unimportant collateral 

 circumstances, they fall into a condition of harmless 

 sterility, to attack their victim later on or elsewhere under 

 more favourable conditions with devastating vehemence." 



168. 1901. Sir C. N. E. Eliot, K.C.M.G. 



" Report by His Majesty's Commissioneu on the 

 East Africa Protectorate (Africa, No. 9 (1901))." Pre- 

 sented to both Houses of Parliament by command of His 

 Majesty. August, 1901. London : Printed for His 

 Majesty's Stationery Office, by Harrison & Sons, St. 

 Martin's Lane, Printers in Ordinary to His Majesty. 



" Horses and mules are now used for travelling pur- 

 poses in Ukamba, and it is no longer the custom to make 

 long marches on foot. This is one of the many advan- 

 tageous changes wrought by the [Uganda] railway. 

 Horses do not thrive in the coast districts, and it was 

 formei-ly impossible to take them up-country through 

 regions where they were exposed to Tsetse-fly and various 

 sicknesses. Now they can be transported rapidly through 

 the dangerous zone to the interior " (p. 20). 



" I have hoped that in course of time some practical 

 steps may be taken towards domesticating the zebra and 

 the wildebeeste. These animals appear to be immune to 

 the deadly Tsetse-fly which abounds in some districts of 

 the Protectorate, and, if either of them or mules bred from 

 them could be employed as pack or draught animals, it 

 would in all probability have an incalculably good effect 

 upon the country, the prosperity of which is at present 

 sadly hampered by want of efficient transport" (p. 25). 



