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smoke here and there showed that the natives, according 

 to their custom, were now burning it. There was no forest; 

 but scattered over the plains were trees, generally thorns, 

 but other kinds also, among them palms and euphorbias. 



The following morning, forty-eight hours after leaving 

 Butiaba, on Lake Albert Nyanza, we disembarked from 



Rhino camp, Lado Enclave 

 From a photograph by Edmund Heller 



the little flotilla which had carried us a crazy little steam 

 launch, two sail-boats, and two big row-boats. We made 

 our camp close to the river's edge, on the Lado side, in a 

 thin grove of scattered thorn-trees. The grass grew rank 

 and tall all about us. Our tents were pitched, and the grass 

 huts of the porters built, on a kind of promontory, the main 

 stream running past one side, while on the other was a 

 bay. The nights were hot and the days burnine: 

 mosquitoes came with darkness, sometimes necessitating 



