12 
TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
Chip LIIL 
Haj Edris whom I have had frequent occasion to 
mention. In order to get everything in readiness, 
and to be sure of having neglected no precaution 
to secure full success to my enterprise, I followed 
my old principle, and pitched my tent for the first 
day only a couple of miles distant from the gate, 
near the second hamlet of Kaliluwa, in the scanty 
shade of a baiire, when I felt unbounded delight 
in finding myself once more in the open country, 
after a residence of a couple of months in the town, 
where I had but little bodily exercise. Indulging 
in the most pleasing anticipations as to the suc- 
cess of the enterprise upon which I was then em- 
barking, I stretched myself out at full length on 
my noble lion-skin, wdiich formed my general couch 
during the day, and which was delightfully cool. 
Friday, This was one of the coldest, or perhaps 
November 26th. very coldest night which I experienced 
in the whole of my journeys since entering the fertile 
plains of Negroland, the thermometer in the morning, 
a little before sunrise, showing only 9° Fahr. above 
the freezing point. The interior of Africa, so far 
removed from the influence of the sea (which is 
warmer in winter than the terra jirma), forms, with 
regard to the cold season, an insulated cool space 
in the tropical regions, in opposition to the warm 
climate of the West Indies and the coasts and islands 
of the Pacific and Indian oceans. We were all greatly 
alfected by the cold. But it did us a great deal of 
good, invigorating our frames after the enervating 
