214 THE ODYSSEY OF AN ANIMAL COLLECTOR 
ing for the railhead. With a temperature of 104°F. she had to 
travel all night on a lorry over terribly bumpy roads. During this 
nightmare we encountered a very bad storm, which blew a large 
tree across the road; it took twenty natives with cutlasses, working 
in the light of our headlamps, nearly an hour to clear away the 
trunk and masses of branches. 
After one day’s respite at Kumasi we caught the train to the 
coast and Delys had to be carried to the train from the hospital. 
Once aboard the ship for home we soon forgot all the hardships 
and rejoiced to think that we were able to introduce quite a num- 
ber of new species to England. 
