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UNDER THE AFRICAN SUN 



The river scenery at Fovira is striking. The wild date-pahn 

 waves a gentle greeting with its graceful many-fingered leaves, 

 the welcome banana holds out its luscious fruit, and the dark 

 green of the papyrus contrasts with the lighter green of the 

 various shrubs and trees around. 



Fovira is purely and simply a military frontier station ; it 

 is quite out of the track of the ivory dealers and consequently 

 there is practically no business whatever. To be in receipt of 



RIVER SCENERY AT FOVIRA. 



a comfortable salary, and yet have no other European near 

 to criticise one's shabbiest attire or most frugal meal ; to 

 have a few humdrum daily routine duties to attend to and yet 

 abundance of leisure to gratify one's hobbies of gardening or 

 carpentering ; to live in a perennial warm English summer 

 with the thermometer on an average at 75' F., and yet have 

 the nights pleasantly cool to enjoy a crackling wood-fire ; to 

 have boating and fishing on one side and partridge and guinea- 

 fowl shooting on the other, with an occasional reed-buck or 

 water-buck thrown in to enliven the sport ; to enjoy splendid 



