With Flashlight and Rifle ^ 



are to be seen everywhere. Very frequent also are 

 some different kinds of Composite, much liked by elephants, 

 and a leguminous plant, beloved of tree-badgers, called 

 by the \Vandorobo " mukuna." 



Wherever there is an open outlook we can see the 

 silent, mighty desert, glowing in the sun's rays, at our 

 feet. Above our heads the tall trees arch, decked 



fantastically with those long, waving, white garlands 

 ot lichens. Rest and holy calm prevail in these dark 

 mountain-forests. 



Even the bird-world is but sparsely represented, and, 

 besides bushbuck, it is only now and again that we see 

 anything of the antelope family such as those quaint 

 dwarf members of it, the duikers, mostly belonging to 

 Sylvicapra ocular is, with their ! fabulously long ears. 



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