Chap. XXYIII, 
THE TSETSE. 
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nothing moving apparently but the proboscis. I wished that I 
had been able to take a photograph of a scene, so seldom beheld, 
and which is destined, as guns increase, to pass away from earth. 
When we descended we found all the animals remarkably tame. 
The elephants stood beneath the trees, fanning themselves with 
their large ears, as if they did not see us at 200 or 300 yards 
distance. The number of animals was quite astonishing, and 
made me think, that here I could realize an image of that time, 
when Megatheria fed undisturbed in the primeval forests. We 
saw great numbers of red-coloured pigs {Potamochoerus), standing 
gazing at us in wonder. The people live on the lulls, and, 
having no guns, seldom disturb the game. They have never 
been visited, even by half-castes; but Babisa traders have come 
occasionally. Continuous rains kept us for some time on the 
banks of the Chiponga, and here we were unfortunate enough to 
come among the tsetse. Mr. I. E. Cray, of the British Museum, 
has kindly obliged me with a drawing of the insect, with the 
ravages of which I have unfortunately been too familiar. (For 
description see pp. 80-83.) No. 1 is the insect somewhat smaller 
than life, from the specimen having contracted in drying; they 
are a little larger than the common house-fly. No. 2 is the 
