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and  Nyasa.  At  the  present  time  it  is  used  as  a  breeding  station, 
and  supplies  cattle  to  the  various  district  officials  and  replaces  their 
losses  in  milch  cows.  Recently,  unserviceable  cows,  males  and  young 
stock  have  been  drafted  in  from  these  outlying  stations,  and  among 
some  such  animals,  stated  to  have  come  from  Chinsali,  we  found 
(;]-yp3^];)Qsomes.  At  the  time  of  our  examination  of  this  farm  there 
were  422  head  of  cattle,  of  which  those  that  had  been  bred  there 
were  apparently  in  perfect  health.  In  addition  to  the  settlei  at 
Scotsdale,  whose  cattle,  sheep  and  goats  were  all  infected,  there  are 
two  others,  at  Chunga  and  The  Dell,  situated  within  twenty  miles 
of  each  other,  and  some  twenty  to  thirty  miles  north  of  the  present 
‘fly.’  Cattle,  some  500  head,  at  these  two  farms,  looked  well; 
Chunga,  by  reason  of  its  large  open  grass  flats,  being  particularly 
suited  to  stock.  There  has  been  no  suspicion  of  endemic  trypano¬ 
somiasis  at  these  places,  which  were  stocked  originally  from  the 
healthy  North.  At  the  Livingstonia  Mission  near  Fife  some  fifty 
head  are  kept,  and  though  they  were  not  in  the  best  of  condition  we 
w'ere  unable  to  detect  trypanosomes  among  them.  On  the  plateau 
there  are  1,708  head  of  native-owmed  cattle. 
Tanganyika.  The  officials  at  Abercorn  and  Mporokoso  keep 
cattle  for  their  private  use.  The  latter  place  was  not  visited  by  us, 
but  the  information  given  by  the  Native  Commissioner  does  not 
suggest  the  existence  of  any  acute  trypanosomiasis.  The  disease 
has  never  been  suspected  in  Abercorn,  and  we  were  unable  to  find 
trypanosomes  in  animals  there  ;  but  a  pig  which  was  sent  to  us  at 
our  camp,  fifty  miles  West,  died  of  this  disease  soon  after  its  arrival. 
The  history  of  this  animal  will  be  given  later,  and  we  merely  refer  to 
it  since  it  is  possible  that  its  infection  may  have  taken  place  at 
Abercorn.  Just  prior  to  our  visit  some  five  deaths  had  taken  place 
in  a  herd  of  nearly  600  head  at  a  farm  twenty-eight  miles  East  of 
Abercorn,  and  we  were  able  to  see  a  case  said  to  be  similar  to  those 
which  died.  No  trypanosomes  or  other  blood  parasites  were 
detected,  and  from  the  clinical  picture  presented  by  this,  and  the 
histories  furnished,  we  would  support  the  possibility  that  a  form  of 
vegetable  intoxication  might  be  responsible.  The  existence  of  this 
sickness,  however,  is  of  interest,  since  on  the  route  followed  by  one 
of  us,  each  cattle-owning  village  between  Kasama  and  Abercorn 
complained  of  disease  or  deaths.  Owing  to  the  absence  of  Glossina 
