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Through the kindness of Commandant Verdick the four infected 
cattle which remained when we left Kasongo were kept apart from 
the herd at Kasongo. After our departure the animals were left quiet, 
and there was a consequent amelioration in their condition. While 
we were there they were driven twice daily from their kraal to our 
laboratory and back— a distance of about one and a quarter miles. 
The fatigue of these journeys and the time last through them from 
grazing had certainly an adverse influence. Moiuma and Keowkosiko 
both calved. All the animals were in excellent condition in 
September, 1905. They were then sent to Lokandu, where there is a 
great deal of cattle trypanosomiasis and where Glossiua palpalis is 
far from rare, in order to ascertain whether they would resist exposure 
to re-infection. (It must be remembered that the pasturage at 
Lokandu is not nearly so good as at Kasongo). The steer, three cows 
and two calves reached Lokandu on November, 23rd, 1905, in 
excellent condition. A calf died in December after twenty days of 
manifest diarrhoea. One of the adults died after a “ slow wasting 
and great weakness early in 190C. In August, 1906, two of the four 
remaining animals were very thin and seemed ill ; the remaining two 
are still under observation. The Chef de Secteur at Lokandu, in 
conveying this information, reports that the “ health of the herd at 
Lokandu is excellent.” 
The cattle at Kasongo graze on a wide plain intersected by several 
dreams which have occasional clumps of bushes along their banks. 
,J /ossina palpalis are very, very rarely found about the grazing 
§ rcm nd, and large game practically never comes near it. 
Tshofa, May 15th, 1905. There was formerly a herd here of 
* ome fifty cattle, which was intended to be used for supplying 
ullocks for work on the waggon road between Tshofa and Pania 
Tutombo. As the animals were not doing well, all, save fourteen 
Whlch Were obviously ill, were sent to Lubefu. Of that fourteen only 
e ' ght rem ain ; two were killed by a leopard, four died of a chronic 
1Sease characterised by general loss of condition and constant 
’arrhoea, with straining and small watery stools; there were no 
°, e emas nor lack of appetite. Between June, 190b and I9 ° 4 ’ 
a A ,° Ut thirtee n animals were said to have died here of this disease. 
‘ ' nost all the calves bom or brought here have died of it. and the 
