. Roosevelt's African trip; the story of his life, the voyage from New York to Mombasa, and the route through the heart of Africa, including the big game and other ferocious animals, strange peoples and countries found in the course of his travels . from South Africa, has crane-like legs,al)out three feet long, and slate-gray plumage, marked* with black,derives its name from its erectile crest, which the early Dutch settlerscompared to pens stuck behind the ear of a clerk. It is extremely ser-viceable in destroying snakes, which constitute its principal food. Itis often tamed and kept in poult
. Roosevelt's African trip; the story of his life, the voyage from New York to Mombasa, and the route through the heart of Africa, including the big game and other ferocious animals, strange peoples and countries found in the course of his travels . from South Africa, has crane-like legs,al)out three feet long, and slate-gray plumage, marked* with black,derives its name from its erectile crest, which the early Dutch settlerscompared to pens stuck behind the ear of a clerk. It is extremely ser-viceable in destroying snakes, which constitute its principal food. Itis often tamed and kept in poultry yards, but it has a bad habit ofsnapping up young chickens; and there is a story that the where-abouts of a missing kitten was discovered by hearing a faint mew asthe pet secretary bird stalked to and fro, looking as innocent as if itknew nothing at all about the matter. CHAPTER XXIX Poisonous Insects THE Insect World makes itself known very quickly upon thetravelers arrival in Africa, and from that moment until thelast of the Dark Continent sinks below the horizon on thereturn journey he is never allowed to forget the insects and the perilsthey carry with them like loaded bombs. The Tsetse-fly.—Most prominent and deadly of all African. THE PREY OF THE TSETSE-FLY 284 POISONOUS INSECTS insects is the dread tsetse-fly. This insect resembles a large horsefly,and is death to horses and some other varieties of stock. In fact, it isimpossible to use cattle, horses or dogs in the badly infested districts. But the ravages of the tsetse-fly do not stop here, bad as they is known as the Glossitia palpalis to the naturalist and as the bearerof the dread sleeping disease. Carrying this deadly sickness fromone person to another by means of its l)ite, it is responsible for thedeaths of more than a hundred thousand natives in Uganda alone, andeven Europeans cannot consider themselves immune. The disease isconfined to the fly-infested belts, which extend over wide areas. Inthe inte
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