 I met with the famous fly called " tsetse," whose bite is certain death to oxen and horses. • This " hunter's scourge" is similar to a fly in Scotland called "kleg," but a little smaller; they are very quick and active, and storm a horse like a swarm...  Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London - Seite 263von Zoological Society of London - 1850Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Zoological Society of London - 1850 - 408 Seiten
...boring powers of their ovipositors are very questionable. The accounts given by Mr. R. Gordon Cumming of the destructive powers of the Tsetse fully confirm...and dies, at periods varying from a week to three mouths, according to the extent to which he has been bitten." .... "The next day one of my steeds died... | |
 | Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming - 1850 - 434 Seiten
...death to oxen and horses. This " hunter's scourge " is similar to a fly in Scotland called •*' kleg," but a little smaller ; they are very quick and active,...and storm a horse like a swarm of bees, alighting • >ii l;im in hundreds and drinking his blood. The animal thus Ibitten pines away and dies at periods... | |
 | Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming - 1855 - 422 Seiten
...death to oxen and horses. This "hunter's scourge" is similar to a fly in Scotland called " kleg," hut a little smaller ; they are very quick and active,...according to the extent to which he has been bitten. On the 10th the chief Pocoolway arrived with a large retinue : he was a short stout man, of a prepossessing... | |
 | Roualeyn Gordon Cumming - 1856 - 434 Seiten
...horses. This " hunter's scourge " is like the kleg in Scotland, though a little smaller. The tsetses are very quick and active, and storm a horse like...three months, according to the extent to which he has suffered. On the 10th the chief Pocoolway, a short stout man, of a prepossessing expression, arrived... | |
 | Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming - 1860 - 650 Seiten
...death to oxen and horses. • This " hunter's scourge" is similar to a fly in Scotland called "kleg," but a little smaller; they are very quick and active,...according to the extent to which he has been bitten. On the 1.0th the chief Pocoolway arrived with a large retinue : he was a short, stout man, of a prepossessing... | |
 | Ernest Edward Austen, Hans Jacob Hausen - 1903 - 364 Seiten
...death to oxen and horses. This ' hunter's scourge ' is similar to a fly in Scotland called ' kleg,' but a little smaller ; they are very quick and active,...according to the extent to which he has been bitten" (pp. 219-220). "The next day one of my steeds died of ' tsetse.' He had been bitten under the mountain... | |
 | Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming - 1915 - 392 Seiten
...death to oxen and horses. This " hunter's scourge " is similar to a fly in Scotland called " kleg," but a little smaller ; they are very quick and active,...according to the extent to which he has been bitten. On the 10th the chief Pocoolway arrived with a large retinue: he was a short, stout man, of a prepossessing... | |
 | 1858 - 478 Seiten
...so denominated]. ' This hunter's scourge,' he says, ' is similar to a fly in Scotland called kleg,* but a little smaller ; they are very quick and active,...bitten. * * * The next day one of my steeds died of the tzetze. The head and body of the poor animal swelled up in a most distressing manner before he died;... | |
 | Geoffrey Douglas Hale Carpenter - 1920 - 502 Seiten
...bite is certain death to oxen and horses. This fly is similar to the fly in Scotland called ' Kleg,' but a little smaller. They are very quick and active,...dies at periods varying from a week to three months." And again : " The next day one of my steeds died of Tse-tse. He had been bitten under the mountain... | |
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