^ The Spell of the Elelescho 



species of birds. Such a result must indeed command our 

 respect, when we consider the difficulties with which 

 the traveller had to contend, and especially when we 

 remember that his available resources were comparatively 

 trifling, beside, for instance, the abundant help that was at 

 the disposal of the English explorers of the same period. 



DWARF GAZELLES ON THE VELT. IN THE EDDYING WAVES OF DAZZLING LIGHT 

 ONE COULD NOT KEEP ONE'S EYES OPEN FOR MORE THAN A SECOND AT A TIME. 



The Geographical Society of Hamburg rendered him the 

 service of making the execution of his plans possible, and 

 for the same object Fischer expended all the money he had 

 earned in the active practice of his profession as a doctor 

 on the island of Zanzibar. He saw the activity he had 

 devoted to the service of scientific ideals richly rewarded 

 by the results he obtained. And then he had soon to 



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