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water. Two of them are 8 ft. long. Here the natives come 

 down and wash all among them on perfectly friendly terms. 

 Wukari stands high and is consequently used as a health 



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resort for Ibi, which is an unhealthy, fever-stricken place. 

 Horses are also sent up there to avoid the tetse-fly belt round 

 Ibi in the wet season. We ourselves lost two in a very short 

 time. The news of their deaths was broken to us by our 

 horse-boys coming with long faces and bearing the tails of 

 the unfortunate animals as a proof that they were dead and 

 not misappropriated, for the native "boy" never expects to 

 be believed without a proof in his hand. 



