Chapter TIL 



The coli.ui- of tlie earth is a brick-red throughout the district. 

 The veo-etatioii is chstrihiited accordino- to accidents of the soil. 

 The hioh oTound, the top of the hills, and their slopes are 

 covered with deep grass and occasional single trees or groups of 

 a few trees set in brushwood. The valley bottoms where water 

 flows are covered witli luxuriant forests. Where the waters 



BETWEEN SWA3I1' AND FOREST. 



stagnate stretch "vast swamps covered with gigantic papyrus, 

 imder whose shade tlouiishes a ricli growtli of aquatic plants. 



From the highfi' iidges, as far as tlie eye can reach, 

 stretches an iiii(hilat iiig plain, wliose roimded hillocks, covered 

 witli deep yellow grass, are diversified 1)V low-lving strips of 

 daik I'reen forest. 



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