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(lays were spent in this vicinity, and the rctura journey was made, by a 

 dirt'erent route, to Kogin Sirikin Pawa (also on the railway), which was reached 

 on December 7th — the total distance covered being- about ninety-seven miles. 



This part of the country is very imperfectly known, and several of the towns 

 mentioned here are not given on any map, but their approximate position may 

 be gauged from the text of the report and the route shown on the 

 appended map. The first day's journey brought us to Wuye, a distance 

 estijnated at about nine miles, but very difficult trekking owing to the 

 extremely hilly and rocky nature of the country. The route was very sinuous, 

 and numerous streams were crossed. The vegetation as a whole was fairly open, 

 but a few dense kurimi-like patches were traversed. No blood-sucking flies, 

 however, were seen during the journey. Wuye is a small Gwari town on the 

 top of an extremely steep hill, and it is noteworthy that the majority of the 

 (xwari towns are so situated for purposes of defence; thus the probability of 

 Glossiiia occurring in them is very remote. At and around this town the following 

 species of Tabanids v/ere caught, Haeinatopota decora, H. palUdipcnnis and two 

 species of Tahunus, both probably new. 



The next town at which we camped was Doka (shown oc the luap), distant 

 about seventeen miles. The first part of the road is very rocky and similar to 

 that between Kugo and Wuye, but mostly down-hill. When that part is passed, 

 tlie road is good, and there is abundant low scrub and long grass. A tributary 

 of the Kogin Sirikin Pawa had to be crossed, and later that river itself. Several 

 knrimiswere passed through, and, although there is dense vegetation along the banks 

 of both the streams mentioned, and all seemed likely haunts for tsetse, none was 

 seen ; the only blood-sucking flies caught being Haeinatopota pallidipennis, and 

 one specimen of the new Tabamis obtained at Wuye. 



Doka is a Kadara town of moderate size situated on the edge of an extensive 

 kurimi. The camp was pitched in a clearing in this kurimi, the vegetation of 

 which was so dense that the sun's rays hardly penetrated and the air was damp 

 and musty. Numerous Glossina palpalis occur at all parts of the kurimi and in 

 the town itself. 



From Doka to Kateri is roughly about eighteen miles. The country is covered 

 with open bush, but this is intersected in every direction, at varying intervals, by 

 long stretches of dense bush. In several of these G. palpalis was seen, and 

 doubtless occurs in all. At the River Dinia, which was crossed on this march, 

 G. palpalis is also abundant. 



Kateri is a Kadara town situated in a small open clearing in the centre of a 

 dense kurimi, which extends for several hundred yards all round, while radiating 

 from it are several moderately wide strips of bush of a similar nature (PI. XIV, 

 figs. 1 and 2). The Kadaras are a very primitive and shy people ; the women 

 are absolutely devoid of clothing, and the children are supported on their backs 

 by skins, chiefly those of a species of monkey and the harnessed antelope. The 

 importance of this fact is seen when one remembers that the women are the 

 water-carriers, and that the water-pools stand in thick bush swarming with tsetse, 

 so that they have no jjrotectiou from the attacks of these insects. One case of 

 sleeping sickness was found in this village, and though there was no evidence of 



