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Ali eight rupees to take them to the coast, thus it has 

 been a regularly organized conspiracy. 



From the appearance of the cow-buffalo, I fear the tsetse 

 is its chief enemy, but there is a place like a bayonet wound 

 on its shoulder, and many of the wounds or bruises on the 

 camels were so probed that I suspect the sepoys. 



Many things African are possessed of as great vitality in 

 their line as the African people. The white ant was im- 

 ported accidentally into St. Helena from the coast of Guinea, 

 and has committed such ravages in the town of St. James, 

 that numerous people have been ruined, and the governor 

 calls out for aid against them. In other so-called new 

 countries a wave of English weeds follows the tide of 

 English emigration, and so with insects; the European 

 house-fly chases away the blue-bottle fly in New Zealand. 

 Settlers have carried the house-fly in bottles and boxes for 

 their new locations, but what European insect will follow 

 us and extirpate the tsetse? The Arabs have given the 

 Makonde bugs, but we have the house-fly wherever we go> 

 the blue-bottle and another like the house-fly, but with a 

 sharp proboscis ; and several enormous gad-flies. Here there 

 is so much room for everything. In New Zealand the 

 Norwegian rat is driven off by even the European mouse ; 

 not to mention the Hanoverian rat of Waterton, which is 

 lord of the land. The Maori say that " as the white man's 

 rat has driven away the native rat, so the European fly 

 drives away our own; and as the clover kills our fern, so 

 will the Maori disappear before the white man himself." 

 The hog placed ashore by Captain Cook has now overrun 

 one side of the island, and is such a nuisance that a large 

 farmer of 100,000 acres has given sixpence per head for 

 the destruction of some 20,000, and without any sensible 

 diminution ; this would be no benefit here, for the wild 

 hogs abound and do much damage, besides affording food 

 for the tsetse : the brutes follow the ewes with young, 



