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CATTLE TRYPANOSOMIASIS IN THE 
CONGO FREE ST ATE* 
BY 
The late J. EVERETT Dl'I ION, M.B. (Vict.) 
(WALTER MYERS FELLOW, UNIVERSITY OK LIVERPOOL) 
JOHN L. TODD. BA., M.D., C.M. McGill 
(DIRECTOR OF THE KISCORN RESEARCH LABORATORIES OF THE 
LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE) 
AND 
ALLAN KINGHORN. M.B. (Toronto) 
(JOHNSTON colonial fellow, I'NiVERsi i y ^ oi ^J^Ychool of 
DEMONSTRATOR AND RESEARCH ASSISI ANT , I - 
TROPICAL MEDICINE) 
Being the Eighth Progress Report of the Expedition of the Liverpool 
School of Tropical Medicine to the Congo, WOj-Oj 
{Received April 20 th, 1907 ) 
I. INTRODUCTION 
When Europeans first came to the Congo there were practically no 
:uttle in the greater part ol the central area of what is now t 
state. Since then advent cattle have constantly been imported from 
neighbouring African colonies.t 
They have been sent to many posts in different parts of the Congo 
with varying success. As a rule, it ,s said that cattle tend to do bes 
plain country where there are no buffaloes. ___ 
. •„ naoer was communicated in 1904 
Much of the information contained in this P 1 , reports, 
to the Government of the Congo Free State m unp herds G f cattle. 
tThe natives in the highlands about Lake nave long, upstanding, 
A® a nile the Kivu cattle G ig- 3 l are rath * r S th( , m a re of the humped zebu 
slightly-curved horns 1 B.< aegyfliacus ?). • '”"5 , b the expedition 1 generally 
'ype. The cattle in the parts of the < ongo V1 sited by ^ be present m the 
approximate to the European type. Tsetse ntes cattle taken from Lake 
K|vu district. Game' is ‘plentiful. The mortality among c- ^ three have 
Kivu to other districts is very great From herds of ^ (. attle died in herds 
remained on arriving at Kasongo! It was foun hard. The cause of the 
which travelled onlv every third day than m th( > f od but disease. Seventy- 
mortality is therefore probably not fatigue and lack ot^ ^ until the forest was 
•i'e head of cattle taken North from Luts b i all were dead, 
entered. They then commenced to die. and at Mawambi 
