AND THE NILE 



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our heads, we saw it suddenly drop to the ground. l\uuning up to 

 see what it had struck, we found the bird in the characteristic attitude 

 depicted in the accompanyiag illustration. It had struck a young jackal, 

 and was gathering its pinions around it in a semi-circle, partly to screen 

 its body from counter-attack, partly, no doubt, to prevent some other eagle 

 snatching at the prey. 



All along the western aspect of this mountainous ridge that runs through 

 Unyoro there is more or less dense tropical forest, which, together with 

 the not far distant Mpanga Forest of Toro (and this again stretches with 

 few breaks to the south-eastern coasts of Lake Albert Edward), constitutes 

 a kind of outlying belt of the great Congo Forest that lies on the other side 

 of the Albertine Eift Valley. These Budonga and Bugoma forests in 

 Western Unyoro are inhabited by chimpanzees. They are extremely rich 

 in all the rubber-producing trees and vines which are native to the Uganda 

 Protectorate, and swarm with elephants bearing exceptionally large tusks. 



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115. "white-eared COBUS antelopes" on the NILE 



The I\ift Valley of Lake Albert recommences in Southern. Toro, curls 

 round the south of Ruwenzori, includes Lake Albert Edward, and then 

 passes between the edge of the Bulega, or Lega, Plateau and the highlands 



