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In this village, however, we olitained one or two species of okapi skin 

 which had been cut up by the natives. 



One of these Dwarf settlements merits a few words of description. You 

 must imagine that you have penetrated an extremely dense bit of forest, 

 .and in a hollow, near a trickling stream, under such a dense canopy of 



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foliage that the presence of the sky above is only indicated by twinkling 

 stars of blue through the interstices of the leaves, where the great tree- 

 trunks are covered with green moss or lichen due to the damp, there 

 are tiny habitations made of leaves and sticks which it is difficult to 

 believe at first are the dwellings of human beings. These are placed 

 usually in a little clearing between a clump of great tree-trunks. They 



