Chapter III. 



The colour of the earth is a hrick-red throughout the district. 

 The vegetation is distributed according to accidents of the soil. 

 The high groiuid, the top of the hills, and their slopes are 

 covered with deep grass and occasional single trees or groups of 

 a few ti-ees set in Ijrushwood. The valley bottoms where water 

 ilows are covered with luxuriant forests. Where the waters 



BETWEEN SWAMP AND FOREST. 



stagnate stretch vast swamps covered with gigantic papyrus, 

 under whose shade flourishes a rich growtli of aquatic plants. 



From tlie higher ridges, as far as the eye can reach, 

 stretches an undulating plain, whose rounded hillocks, covered 

 witli deejj yellow grass, are diversified bv low-lving strips of 

 dark screen forest. 



