These are the real points of personal interest in any campaign, and if these sketches bear upon the questions of food, the matter of transport, the manner of the soldier's illness, the hospitals he stayed in, the tsetse fly that bit him by day, the mosquitoes that made his nights a perfect torment, they are the more true to life.

He has with the greatest care denuded the whole country of supplies before us, and called in to his aid his two great allies, the tsetse fly and horse sickness, to rob us of our live cattle and transport animals on the way.

For the floor is covered with a layer of wood ashes that is usually deadly to bugs and fleas and ticks and other crawling beasts; and the atmosphere is so full of wood smoke that the most enterprising mosquito or tsetse-fly would flee, as we do, choking from the acrid smoke.

The worst biter that we have met in the many "fly-belts" that lie along the Northern Railway is the tsetse fly: especially was he to be found at a place called Same, and during the long trek from German Bridge on the Northern Railway to Morogoro in the south.

But the blind bush robbed our troopers of their sense of direction, and the long trek through waterless bush, the tsetse fly and horse-sickness that took their daily toll of all our horses reduced the speed of cavalry to little more than a walk.

From the verandah of the hospital the soldier sees the hospital ship all lighted up at night with red and green lights, the ship that's going to take him out of this infernal climate to where the mosquitoes are uninfected and tsetse flies bite no more.

No cow is more placid, no lamb more gentle; he would not harm a tsetse fly or kick a snapping terrier.

The bite of the little tsetse fly kills them.

From worms he went to Protozoa-Trypanosomes, sleeping sickness, host tsetse-flyshowed life history comparatively, propagated in secondary host or encysting in primary hostsimilarly malarial germs spread by Anopheles mosquitoesall very interesting.

"This fly," replied the entomologist, "this fly that I hold between my fingers, this flyit is a tsetse!

It is that famous dipter that is the honor of a country, and, till now, no one has ever found a tsetse in America!"

Dick Sand did not dare to ask Cousin Benedict in what part of the world this redoubtable tsetse was only to be met.

It was the tsetse, that dipter picked up by Benedict, the formidable tsetse under whose stings the animals of the caravans perish!

It was the tsetse, that dipter picked up by Benedict, the formidable tsetse under whose stings the animals of the caravans perish!

I have discovered a tsetse in America.

The insects that he imagined he had been the first to discover in America, those tsetses and others, were only mere African hexapodes, found by many naturalists before him, in their native places.

Then came the rains, the bad will of the natives, and the loss of the beasts of burden, from falling under the stings of the tsetse.