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steppes over which the fierce tropical sun blazed without 

 any protection for many hours during the day. In such 

 places the noon-day heat is fearful, and the men on this 

 particular occasion, as is often the case on exposed plains 

 near the Equator, were hardly able to walk with their bare 



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The pebble beaches of the West Coast of the Albert Edward Nyanza and old 

 water-marks. 



feet on the hot ground. The surface of the earth was 

 desiccated and sandy, but a few inches below there was an 

 appreciable amount of moisture, due to the occasional 

 storms which sweep over such plains and disappear almost 

 as quickly as they form. Nothing but grass grew near the 

 lake, and even this had evidently had a very bad time, for 

 it was scraggy and white and bleached, and alternated with 



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