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wrote to you, save that I have only one other white man 

 here in the fort with me. We get occasional night alarms, 

 as the enemy's patrols wander about and come and fire on 

 our outlying pickets, but nothing much has happened. We 

 really did think one night we were in for an attack, but after 

 a few shots nothing more came of it. 



" My mornings and two afternoons a week are fully occupied 

 with my medical duties, but on other afternoons I am free, 

 and am having a great time with butterflies, and am sending 

 you now the first tin full. I think you may, for convenience, 

 allude to them as ' War butterflies.' I should think they 

 are the only ones you have got which have been captured 

 in the enemy's country by one of the army of occupation 

 during the war ! 



" I have, I think, previously described the country, but 

 will do so again. The hill on which the fort is built rises 

 suddenly out of an absolutely flat plain covered with rather 

 long tussocky coarse grass with here and there clumps of 

 bushes or patches of thorny Acacia trees. The hill has various 

 names but we call it Kakindu, because that is the name of 

 a large plantation and planter's house at the foot of it. About 

 a mile away to the N.W. lies thick forest which is, by the way, 

 continuous with that in British territory on the shore of the 

 Lake, just north of the boundary, known as Tero forest, 

 where I think Neave collected. This forest is of a very 

 different type from that I am accustomed to. Firstly, it 

 seems more recent — one sees none of the very laige tree 

 trunks that one met on the islands : it seems as if the trees 

 were not yet full grown. Secondly, of course, the trees are 

 rather different. I haven't yet seen the Pseudacraea food 

 plant [Sapotaceae]. Thirdly, there is a very abundant epi- 

 phyte, hanging from every tree in very long tresses of light 

 grey colour (amongst which the black and white tufted Colobus 

 monkey is well concealed). When one looks at the top of 

 the forest from this hill it is mottled with this plant — about 

 the colour of a lichen on old apple trees. Then the under- 

 growth is of difierent character, and the huge ropes of rubber 

 creepers hanging in loops — so abundant on the islands — are 

 absent. This is, I think, especially interesting evidence that 



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