242 SAVAGE SUDAN 



(in) ELEPHANTS AND BUFFALO 



As we sailed leisurely onwards towards Lake No, two 

 incidents befell. The marsh-vegetation along the banks 

 grew gigantic, frequently shutting out our view and 

 usually forbidding a landing. These green walls of 

 papyrus were brightened by the golden-yellow blossoms 

 of the ambatch-bush (sEdemone mirabilis) and by huge 

 purple convolyuli ; ant-hills were often festooned with the 



WHISTLING TEAL. 

 Stand in formal upright attitudes. 



crimson flowers of a creeper, while many riverside trees 

 were draped to their summits in a clinging mantle of 

 lianas, gorgeous in bright-hued blooms. The swamps 

 were carpeted with water-lilies (white, golden, and mauve), 

 and we saw here true bulrushes for the first time. 



While passing a point known as the Maya Assignora 

 (associated, I believe, with Mdlle. Tinne), and busy 

 working in my cabin about 3 P.M. I was aroused by 

 excited cries of "Fill! Fill!!" ( = elephants). About 

 500 yards to the north, stretched a belt of mimosa-forest 

 and towards this my men, with wild gesticulations, eagerly 



