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that on both occasions when I had crossed the [Kagera] river 

 I found on the other side the stridulating ant Megaponera 

 foelens ? So this time, as soon as I crossed over again (just 

 above the falls mentioned) I kept a careful look-out and had 

 hardly gone a mile away from the river before I saw it abun- 

 dantly, and yet had not seen it before ! So I think the three 

 localities, very far separated from each other, may be held to 



establish the fact that for this ant the K (I nearly said it 



that time) river does form a barrier ! 



"Jaly 12, 1916. With Belgian Northern Forces. 



" We have arrived at last at the S.W. corner of the lake 

 (and didn't I cry Bakao-o-a when I first saw it !), and are now 

 only two days off Entebbe, as we are in touch with the 

 steamers. 



" As you will have seen in the papers the Belgians had an 

 excellent scrap down here, and utterly routed a very superior 

 German force, killing and capturing most of the white officers. 

 But long before you get this you will have seen in the papers 

 about the doings of some English columns ; as I can't say 

 anything about them I will change the subject. 



" The country down here is very different from the lake 

 scenery I am accustomed to. No forest, but bush and scrub 

 and thorn trees scattered about among long grass now all dried 

 up, and haunted by G. morsitans. In wet weather there must 

 have been lots of game here, judging by prints (and some one 

 has seen three giraffe since we have been here). But now, it 

 being dry season and all the grass brown, there are no game, 

 and not much in the way of butterflies; as the country has 

 been burnt to destroy the cover for the German askaris, who 

 have been routed and scattered all over the country. The 

 climate is nice, as the nights are very much cooler than at the 

 N. end of the lake, and during the day there is always a fresh 

 S.E. wind — I suppose trade wind. Day after day the sky is 

 cloudless and blue, and that again is different, for up north 

 one never gets a day without lumpy cumulus clouds, and rarely 

 passes a night without seeing lightning flickerings. 



" You will have seen in my last letter notes about again 

 finding Megaponera foelens south of the Kagera River, where 



