. African nature notes and reminiscences [microform]. Zoology; Big game hunting; Zoologie; Chasse au gros gibier. IX TSK-TSK H.\ IN IHK IRANSVAAI. 151 tht; whole of to the s(juih of the Zainhrsi, whore' not only woiilil it s(-cm thai thcs*- inserts livt: <tntir«'ly niinn lilood, hut that ihry h^ve beconii- so hiijhiy sprcialistd that tht-y only maintain iht-ir vitality on tht- blood of biittal()(;s ; lor it can he shown that whcrcvrr tse- tse tlies were tirst encounteretl by the earliest Kuropean tra\«ll«-rs in South Africa, there also biitlaloes were either consta
. African nature notes and reminiscences [microform]. Zoology; Big game hunting; Zoologie; Chasse au gros gibier. IX TSK-TSK H.\ IN IHK IRANSVAAI. 151 tht; whole of to the s(juih of the Zainhrsi, whore' not only woiilil it s(-cm thai thcs*- inserts livt: <tntir«'ly niinn lilood, hut that ihry h^ve beconii- so hiijhiy sprcialistd that tht-y only maintain iht-ir vitality on tht- blood of biittal()(;s ; lor it can he shown that whcrcvrr tse- tse tlies were tirst encounteretl by the earliest Kuropean tra\«ll«-rs in South Africa, there also biitlaloes were either constantly present or visited such districts diirinj^ certain months of every year ; and that as soon .is the buffaIo<-s were either or drivtm out of any such territories, a remarkable diminution in the numbers of the ise-tse flies was at once observed ; whilst in a very few years after tne complete extinction of the buffaloes these insects entirely c«'ased to «!xist, ev(;n thoui,'h other kinils of i;ame remained in the country for years afterwards. A few facts bearing on this subject, which, being historical, can neither be questiont'd nor. I think, explained away as coincidences, are well worth enumerating. In 1845 Mr. William Cotton (Jswell—the well- known traveller ami huriter encountered fly on the Maghaliquain river, a tributary of the Limpopo running through the Northern Transvaal, and it is an historical fact that at that tinu; the whole of the Northern Transvaal 1) ing between the Waterberg and Zoutpansberg ranges and th«- Limpopo, as well as a large area of country lying to the north of that river, was the haunt of great herds of buffaloes, and that the banks of every river draining this large territory, as well as many tracts of forest lying between these rivers, were at the saaie time infested with tse-tse flies. In 1871 the well-known traveller Mr. Thomas Baines. as he nas recorded in his book T/ic Gold Rfi^ions of South-East Africa, sti
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