GLIMPSES OF EAST AFRICA AND ZANZIBAR 



well how to make. Then if we were still hungry a 

 slice of cake did not come amiss, with a cup of tea, 

 as generally our lunch was partaken of about tea 

 time, so we had them together one after the other, 

 whereas we had eaten our breakfast about five 

 o'clock A.M. After food, then to stretch ourselves 

 idly on our beds and talk over the events of the 

 day, hearing the while the buzz of the porters' 

 chatter as they cooked their beans or meat a little 

 way off. This particular camping place was most 

 beautiful ; our tent lay under the shelter of a tree, as 

 it had rained heavily at intervals — other trees and 

 shrubs around us ; the former with the porters like 

 monkeys climbing about their branches, to pull off 

 the dead and rotten wood for fires, their red blankets 

 making a pretty touch of colour amongst the green. 

 At the back of us lay the mountains, first covered 

 with trees such as were around us, then farther up 

 a thick belt of bamboo forest, such as elephants 

 love to roam in, towering up to the most perfect 

 of blue skies. Below us and around us stretched 

 for miles and miles the wide yellow-brown plain, 

 here and there in the distance dotted with herds 

 of kongoni or zebra ; and by patiently looking out 

 through one's glasses other animals could be seen 

 as specks moving, and it was only after watching 

 for some time that we could distinguish what, 

 whether ostriches or some gazelle. That evening 

 my husband's heel was very bad, as he had not been 



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