-> Hostile Forces 



natives. Some of these latter take to flight ; guide not 

 available. 



"June 27.- Start at 4 a.m. March to Ouabigo ; way 

 lost. Camp, 4 p.m. Everything \vet through, road 

 through uncleared forest and very tall sedge ; the 

 whole day, a line mist-like rain ; some \Vasegna planta- 

 tions in which Indian millet was ripening. Many huts 



deserted. Locusts have laid waste all the vegetation 

 some time ago. 



" /////c 28-30. March to a rocky hill through very 

 tall sedge. \\ et through ; tine mist-like rain. I'racks ot 

 buffalo and elephant about fourteen days old. (irass 

 already far too high. The game has sought other 

 quarters; till to-day seen only a guerexa and a reedbuck 

 nothing else. Almost incessant rain. 



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