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her ; it could not have been otherwise : she learned to 

 know me through and through and placed in me the 

 most unbounded confidence, and entrusted me with the 

 keeping of her sorrows." 



The winter of 1908 found Agassiz headed for East 

 Africa in search of warm weather. 



TO WOLCOTT GIBBS 



Cambridge, Dec. 25, 1907. 

 I am off again to-morrow, sailing Friday per Baltic for 

 Liverpool, to stop a few days in London and Paris, and 

 thence to Marseilles, where I sail the 18th January for 

 Mombasa, the terminus of the Uganda Railroad lead- 

 ing to Victoria Nyanza. I am taking with me Max and 

 Wood worth. This is a lazy loafing trip merely to get 

 into a good warm region ; no work except to keep my 

 eyes open to see the many tribes of darkies which occupy 

 that part of East Africa. Besides that the scenery is 

 fine and game in way of elephants, giraffes, and ante- 

 lopes, to say nothing of hippopotami and rhinoceros 

 plenty ; lions have a way of picking passengers out of 

 their sleeping-cars : otherwise everything is most com- 

 fortable. I expect to be back early in April in time for 

 the Academy meeting. I see the American Philosophi- 

 cal Society is still insisting on holding its annual meet- 

 ing at the same time as the Academy, which will cut out 

 a good many members. It is too bad there should be 

 this antagonism and duplication of meetings and attempt 

 on the part of Philadelphia to cut out the Academy by 

 superior food attractions. 



He appears to have been fascinated by the presence 

 of the herds of wild animals which seem to have been 



