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separate label, in the collector's writing, carefully 
recording its habitat, and other particulars useful 
to the student, accompanied in many instances 
by examples of nests and eggs. There, on the 
other hand, were lesser boxes, filled with varied 
specimens of insects, some from those very Victoria 
Falls of the Zambesi, the rich and almost untried 
harvest -ground of the naturalist, whose attractions 
had lured the wanderer to his untimely grave. And 
there, again, were those large wide -necked bottles, 
familiar to the collector, containing, some of them, 
strange-looking beetles, others still stranger reptiles; 
there the packets of botanical drying paper, each 
sheet enveloping its floral treasure. Turning again 
to other cases, were found in numbers the singular 
implements of savage warfare, or industry, and with 
them many of those rude yet tasteful attempts at 
ornamentation suggested by native fancy ; evidences 
— the whole of them — of that untutored skill and 
delicate refinement of workmanship which charac- 
terize many of the finer races of unlettered savages. 
Whilst further, the mighty tusks of the huge African 
elephant, the skins of the lion, the leopard, and the 
cheetah, — for it was these beasts of prey that the 
traveller had especially loved to hunt, — besides 
those of many an African antelope, with horns and 
heads of equal grace and beauty, told silently of 
stirring adventures in the bush. Lastly, but yet not 
