Defn: A large noxious fly of Abyssinia, which like the tsetse fly, is destructive to cattle.
Tsetse flies carry sleeping sickness, and also transmit the very fatal fly disease of domesticated animals, a fact which has been and is of great importance in the settlement of Africa.
The children grew feverish, and mosquitoes made life a misery to them, while the tsetse fly made further exploration for the moment impossible.
As they marched along the banks of the Rovuma the buffaloes and camels were badly bitten by the tsetse fly, and one after another died.
In addition, the party of explorers found their animals woefully bitten by the tsetse fly, rhinoceroses and elephants were too plentiful to be interesting, and the great white ant made itself tiresome.
The usual pack animals, horses and oxen, cannot live on the Gold Coast because of the tsetse fly, which spreads amongst them the sleeping sickness.
The most serious impediment which stands in the African hunter's road to success is the tsetse fly, which haunts the forests and the banks of streams in many parts of southern and subtropical Africa.
If thetsetse infested district is not large, it is much better to make the circuit of it, or to pass through it in the night.
We do not remember that we saw the tsetse there, but possibly this may have originally prevented their introduction, and the fly may have died out in places where the wild animals have been destroyed.
The rhino was feeding tsetse as he dozed in the high swamp-grass.
According to Chapman, the bites of four tsetse flies are sufficient to kill an ox, but in man the irritation produced is very slight.
One of the worst is the tsetse (Glossina morsitans), immortalised by Livingstone.
Some say it is because the natives who get their living by hammock- carrying poison them, others say the tsetse fly finishes them off; and others, and these I believe are right, say that entozoa are the cause.
The blood after death by Tsetse is very small in quantity, and scarcely stains the hands in dissection.
The mule, ass, and goat enjoy the same immunity from the Tsetse as man and game.
A most remarkable feature in the bite of the Tsetse is its perfect harmlessness in man and wild animals, and even calves so long as they continue to suck the cows.
There was no time to lose, for, to the dismay of all, Peter announced that he had found tsetse fly that afternoon upon the two horses that had been grazing near the waggon.
The horses had now begun to show signs of having been bitten by the tsetse fly, the chestnut and grey displaying roughened skins and a general uneasiness; while the bay, though slightly roughened about the coat, still held out.
Two other difficulties likely to meet travelers in this part of the country are scarcity of water and the tsetse fly.
After our return from Nanzela, in May, the oxen gave no indication of being bitten by the tsetse fly.
The trip, however, proved a most unfortunate one for us, as we were informed that we had passed through a small district of the tsetse fly on the way.
We learned that the one on which our guide was taking us was not well supplied with water, was infested with many savage beasts and the tsetse fly, which kills oxen, so that it was altogether unsafe for the journey.
The wages too, eight cents a day, is small, but where the tsetsefly abounds this is the only safe method of transportation.
Close to Ship Mountain, where the plains begin, we reached the border of the tsetse region, and here we established a depot at which we left eight of our sixteen spans of oxen.
The country of the tsetse fly had to be traversed; but, unless rain falls, cattle generally live for six weeks or so after being bitten, and it was intended to run the goods through before the oxen succumbed.
The whole team of oxen succumbed more quickly than usual to tsetse bite.
This is constituted by the tsetse fly, which renders a pastoral life absolutely impossible throughout large tracts in central and southern Africa.
The tsetse fly, whose bite is fatal to all domestic animals, is common in many districts of South and East Africa.
The tsetse flies, belonging to the genus Glossina, are African species of blood-sucking Muscidae which have attracted much attention because of their role in transmitting various trypanosome diseases of man and animals.
That the hope was vain he knew, and that in all the island of Mombasa there is no single beast of burden, thanks to the tsetse fly, whose sting is death to them.
How could motor transport go through densest trackless bush, or horse and bullock transport where horse-sickness and tsetse fly forbade?
The tsetse inhabits the trees which bound the pasture-land on the west; so, should the herdsman forget his duty, the cattle straying might be entirely lost.
No tsetse infested this district, and the cattle brought from Johanna flourished on the abundant pasture.
Tsetse flies are more numerous and troublesome than we have ever before found them.
About eight o'clock the tsetse commence to buzz about us, and bite our hands and necks sharply.
A herd of fine cattle showed that no tsetse existed in the district.
From the spoor of buffaloes and elephants it appears that these animals frequent Lupata in considerable numbers, and--we have often observed the association--the tsetse fly is common.
In what places and for how long will the tsetse continue to fly, as he is wont, over the smooth, gleaming water, just above the reeds and bushes, just below the branches of the overhanging trees?
The groves which fringed and overhung the river swarmed with tsetse flies of newly-replenished venom and approved malignity, and no man could enter them except at a risk.
Indeed, the veils were such a nuisance and the heat was so great that I resolved to hazard the tsetse and took mine off.
The grass has an oily, lemon taste, which the tsetse fly does not fancy, and he leaves the cleared section.
Sleeping sickness is caused from a bite of the tsetse fly.
Until a few years ago visitors to Ripon Falls were forbidden to go close to the section where the water makes its plunge from Victoria Nyanza to the River Nile, as the brush growing on both sides was infested with tsetse flies.
The tsetse fly is in his own bailiwick in these parts.
In the low-lying regions to the north the bite of the tsetse fly is fatal to horses and to other domestic animals.
A most remarkable feature in the bite of the tsetse is its perfect harmlessness in man and wild animals.
These have all been unsuccessful, owing to that African scourge, the poisonous tsetse fly.
The tsetsedoes not disturb the buffaloes, but these others and the smaller flies do.
I fear that my experiment with the tsetse will be vitiated, but no symptoms yet occur in any of the camels except weariness.
The tsetse seem to like the camel best; from these they are gorged with blood--they do not seem to care for the mules and donkeys.
The country gradually becomes lower, warmer, and tsetse and mosquitoes appear; so at last we come to the remarkable cup-shaped cavity in which Liemba reposes.
From the appearance of the cow-buffalo, I fear the tsetse is its chief enemy, but there is a place like a bayonet wound on its shoulder, and many of the wounds or bruises on the camels were so probed that I suspect the sepoys.
Cross Loéla, thirty feet wide and one deep, and meet with tsetse fly, though we have seen none since we left Chitapangwa's.
Here on the evening of the 7th April our buffaloes and camels were first bitten by the tsetse fly.
The only symptom pointing to the tsetse is the arterial-looking blood, but we never saw it ooze from the skin after the bite of the gad-fly as we do now.
The people have no cattle, but say there are no tsetse flies: they have not been long here, i.
Elephants, hippopotami, and pigs are the only game here, but we see none: the tsetse feed on them.
The cow had escaped from the tsetse by avoiding the cliffs, and keeping out upon the plain; and this animal now constituted his whole live stock,--his whole property!
The dreaded tsetse fly abounded here, and we had sent our horses in via Fort Hall.
Then we hustled on ahead to pioneer the way a little farther; our difficulties were further complicated by the fact that we had sent our horses back to Nairobi for fear of the tsetse fly, so we could not see out above the corn.
Then we pitched camp in the open on the other side, sent the horses back from the stream until after dark, in fear of the deadlytsetse fly, and prepared to enjoy a good exploration of the neighbourhood.
A large noxious fly of Abyssinia, which like the tsetse fly, is destructive to cattle.
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