250 TSETSE IN TOGO. 



169. 1901. S. L. Hinde and H. Hinde. 



" The Last of the Masai " (London : William 

 Heinemann), p. 167. 



Field Notes on the Game of East Africa (i.e. The 

 British East Africa Protectorate). — "Owing to the 

 difficulty of getting horses through the Tsetse-fly belt, 

 which extends over 200 miles from the sea-coast, all 

 hunting and shooting has until now been done on foot. 

 Since the advent of the railway it is feared that 

 luxurious ' sportsmen ' will bring their horses with them, 

 and another factor will be brought to bear upon the final 

 extinction of big game in the last stronghold left in Africa." 



170. 1901. Dr. Schilling. 



" Bericht iJBER DIE Subea-Krankheit der Pferde " 

 (Centralhlatt fiir Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde und In- 

 fekiions - Kranhheiten. Erste Abteilung : Medicinisch- 

 hygienische Bakteriologie und tierische Parasitenkunde. 

 xxx. Band. No. 15. Jena, 30 Oct. 1901, pp. 545-551). 



The author, who writes from Kleinpopo, Togo, gives 

 an account of a disease which is fatal to horses in Togo, 

 Slave Coast, W. Africa. He calls the disease Surra, and 

 describes the Trypanosome which causes it. 



Tsetse-jiy in the Togo Pro<ec/ora/e.— [Translation.] 

 " The Tsetse-fly is accused of being the carrier of Surra. 

 So far as I am aware, this fly does not occur in the Togo 

 Protectorate littoral, which lies between sea and lagoon. 

 On the other shore of the lagoon, consequently at a 

 distance of some three kilometres from the sea-coast, it is 

 very common. The natives know the fly by the name 

 " adjoe." Experiments intended to elucidate the role of 

 the Tsetse-fly in infecting animals with the disease are 

 only in the initial stage, since hitherto a sufficient supply 

 of flies has been wanting. At any rate, the fly bites very 

 readily, and sucks up large quantities of blood with its 

 extremely fine, tubular proboscis. In the case of dogs 

 and horses no perceptible swelling appears after the bite, 

 and therefore it seems to be questionable whether a 

 " saliva," as in the mosquito, is pi'oduced at all. The 

 dissection of the insects is very difficult, owing to the 

 great development of the musculature and the firmness of 

 the tracheal network" (p. 551). 



