264 AFRICAN CAMP FIRES. 



wild and changing country that can represent 

 a stable point of habitude. 



Nor must I forget one evening when all of a 

 sudden out of the darkness came a tremendous 

 hollow booming, like the beating of war drums 

 or the bellowing of some strange great beast. 

 At length we identified the performer as an 

 unfamiliar kind of frog I 



