With Flashlight and Rifle ^ 



are to be seen everywhere. Very frequent also are 

 some different kinds of Coiuposita\ much hked by elephants, 

 and a leo'uminous plant, beloved of tree-badgers, called 

 bv the Wandorobo " miikuna." 



Wherever th(n-e is an open outlook we can see the 

 silent, mighty desert, glowing" in the sun's rays, at our 

 feet. Above our heads the tall trees arch, decked 



fantastically with those long, waving, white garlands 

 of lichens. Rest and holy calm prevail in these dark 

 mountain-forests. 



Even the bird-world is but sparsely represented, and, 

 besides bushbuck, it is only now and again that we see 

 anything of the antelope family — such as those quaint 

 dwarf members of it. the duikers, mostly belonging to 

 Sylvicapra ocularis, with their fabulously long ears. 



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