CHAPTER XVL 



Remarkabi,^ Scknery in TropicaIv Africa Visited by Roose- 

 VEI.T — Masses oe Rocky Mountains — Foeiage Bright with 



AEE THE COEORS OE THE RaINBOW — RaNK GrOWTHS OE 



Rushes and Grass — Varieties oe Animae Liee — The 

 Sacred Ibis — The Long-eEGGEd Stork and Heron — Prime- 

 VAE Forests and Running Streams — Fine Specimens 

 oe Feowers — PerpETuae Moisture — TurteE Doves and 

 Goeden Pheasants — Grave-eooking Monkeys — Beautieue 

 Vaeeeys and Hieesides — The Beautieue in Nature 

 Marred by Human Crueety — Cities Buiet by Insects. 



A FAMOUS Traveler wrote the following description of the 

 ''*' scenery of Africa, which was penetrated by Col. Roosevelt: 

 Unyamwezi is a wide undulating table-land, sinking westward 

 toward Tanganyika. Any one taking a bird's-eye view of the land 

 would perceive forest, a purple-hued carpet of foliage, broken here 

 and there by barren plains and open glades, extending toward every 

 quarter of the heavens. Here and there rise masses of rocky moun- 

 tains, towering like blunt cupolas above the gentle undulations of 

 the land, on to the distant horizon. Standing upon any projecting 

 point, a scene never before witnessed meets the view. Nothing 

 picturesque can be seen; the landscape may be called prosaic and 

 monotonous ; but it is in this very overwhelming, apparently endless, 

 monotony that its sublimity lies. 



The foliage is bright with all the colors of the prism; but as 

 the woods retreat towards the far distance, a silent mystical vapor 

 enfolds them, and bathes them first in pale, and then in dark blue, 

 until they are lost in the distance. But near the lake all is busy life. 

 The shore immediately adjoining the Lake of Ugogo is formed by 

 a morass of at least sixty feet wide, and extending on every side. 

 It is an impenetrable tangle of luxuriant sedge and rushes, where 



the unwieldy hippopotamus, going his nightly rounds, has left his 

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