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GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF AFRICA. 



of almost every house. Along the walls of the houses dart and glide 

 the nocturnal little gekkoes, the greedy but otherwise inoffensive 

 "fathers of leprosy." Here and there upon the trees is seen the 

 changeful play of color of the familiar chameleon, while other rep- 





AFRICAN WALL-LIZARD. 



tiles, often brightly-colored, and some of them more than a yard 

 long, love the desert solitudes. Egypt was always famous as the 

 land of snakes. It has about twenty varieties, poisonous and non- 

 poisonous. As in the days of Moses, so in our own times, there are 



