CHAPTER VI. 



SNAKES are 

 plentiful in 

 this part of 

 the world green and 

 'brown mambas, and 

 other species ; cobras 

 are occasionally seen, 

 and they sometimes 

 get into stores and 

 outhouses and hide away in 

 dark corners. One brown mamba was 

 found coiled up in a soda-water bottle 

 in a friend's house, and I am constantly almost 

 treading upon them out of doors. Once I was 

 sitting resting under a tree, wondering what 

 was causing a peculiar rustling noise quite close 

 to me, when out glided a mamba and slunk 

 off into the bush. 



