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Carpenter's letters and material I have received kind help 

 from the following friends : — Mr. H. E. Andrewes, Mr. Gr. J. 

 Arrow, Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, Mr. K. CI. Blair, Dr. C. A. 

 Boulenger, F.R.S., Mr. G. E. Bryant, Dr. F. A. Dixey, F.R.S., 

 Mr. J. H. Durrant, Dr. H. Eltringham, Dr. C. J. Gahan, 

 Sir George Hampson, Dr. G. A. K. Marshall, the Rev. F. D. 

 Morice, Mr. S. A. Neave, Lord Rothschild, F.R.S., Dr. Oldfield 

 Thomas, F.R.S., and Mr. Rowland E. Turner. 



" Nov. 3, 1910. Ndala (33° 15' E., 4° 45' S.). 



L * By this time you should have received a box of interesting 

 specimens collected in the country between our start-off point 

 at the N.W. tip of ex-G.E.A. and the S.W. corner of the lake. 



" I forget when I last wrote, but since then my connection 

 with the Belgian troops has come to an end, as when they 

 had got to Tabora all the Uganda porters who had been 

 loaned, to get them there, were recalled, and we all reached 

 Muanza at the end of October. Muanza is as different from 

 Entebbe as it can be. It is a place of granite rock which 

 crops up everywhere, forming islets in the sound at the mouth 

 of which Muanza lies, and hills of small size ashore. These 

 are all grown with bushes, now bright green, and it all looks 

 very pretty, but absolutely different from Entebbe with its 

 forest growth, papyrus swamps, banana plantations, and 

 flat-topped hills. Rice and millet are the crops at Muanza. 

 I was only there two days, as I was ordered off at once to 

 my present post along the Lines of Communication between 

 Muanza and Tabora (200 miles out, which I did in a car in 

 two days : it would otherwise have been a fortnight's safari). 

 It is only 40 miles from Tabora, which I hope to see some 

 day. There is venj little to do here, and I have a much 

 bigger staff to help me to do it than I ever had when we 

 were on the march. It's rotten country, very very flat 

 (extremely hot and, dry, though all the trees are brilliant 

 with young green, possibly because water is very near the 

 surface), and with thin bush, and a great part of it has been 

 cultivated at one time or another, so that it's pretty hopeless 

 for butterflies. When I have read my last batch of papers 

 and finished my Xmas letters I shall have very little to do 



