THROUGH ZAMBESIA. 
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Therefore a few poor-looking cows were kept, but were 
not allowed to wander far. With reference to the tsetse, 
I should mention that when game, such as the buffalo, 
elephant, &c., become scarce, as was the case recently in 
the neighbourhood of Delagoa Bay, the fly in a great 
measure disappeared, it being said, with good authority, 
that the little pest breeds upon the buffalo dung. Doubt- 
MASK OF A KISHI-DANCER. 
less when the game, at present plentiful, disappears from 
the Zambesi valley, a like result will follow. 
Near Tette the soil yields very good crops, although 
they are somewhat uncertain, on account of the frequent 
droughts. Greater certainty exists with regard to pro¬ 
duce of the lands farther down the stream than in the 
immediate vicinity of the town, because the frequent 
inundations of the river between the months of Novem¬ 
ber and June ensure the requisite irrigation of the land 
in which the people sow and secure good crops. 
