^ The Lonely Wonder-world of the Nyika 



our eyes, that the most lively Imagination can form no 

 Idea of all this profusion. On such days, I have often 

 wished that one could have a gigantic photographic 

 apparatus, an instrument that would be capable of making 

 a record of all 1 saw. But on such days, also, I have 

 more than once made a mental apology to explorers 

 whose lives have long closed In death. When, for instance, 



REMAINS OF RHINOCEROSES KILLED BY THE BOERS ON THE SHORE OF ONE OF 

 THE MERKER LAKES. 



In former years I had looked over the sketches of the 

 late Cornwallls Harris, sketches showing the life of the 

 South African fauna as he saw it about the year 1837, 

 I more than once had my doubts about the correctness 

 of his representations of it. As the result of what I 

 myself have seen, I have quite given up such doubts. 

 The original sketches left to us by Cornwallls Harris 



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