V 



The Lonely Wonder-world of the Nyika 



THE endless w ilderness of the Xyi'ka presents to the 

 traveller so much that is strange, beautiful, and 

 wonderful that at times his senses become wearied ot 

 these changing impressions of travel, and a longing comes 

 over him for the familiar scenes he has learned to love 

 at home. 



As though in giant characters written on its rocks, the 

 Nyi'ka tells us of the conditions antl the life ot the past 

 and at the same time of c-vcM-yday actualities, giving us 

 its message as well b\- its snow-coveretl volcanic peaks 

 as in the footjjrints and tracks of the mighty creatures 

 that wanck:r through ii. it is a difficult undertaking to 

 reconstruct in fancy all the splendours that must once 

 have presented themselves to the eye in this region. Hut 

 nevertheless I will tell of what I have- looked upon in 

 the past, — of the many beaulitul sights that linger in my 



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