go Wanderings in Eastern Africa, 
become better known and appreciated than they 
are now. 
Among the more forbidding of the winged tribe, 
rooks, hawks, and falcons sweep the skies by day, 
while owls and bats flap their wings by night. 
Snakes, black and green, from the smallest adder 
to the mighty cobra — some harmless, and some of the 
most poisonous — exist. They cross your path, descend 
upon you from the trees, coil their way up the posts 
and along the rafters of your house, find lurking- 
places behind your furniture, and, indeed, meet you 
at every turn. Yet we seldom hear of harm being 
done by them ; now and then an individual gets 
bitten and dies, but they more often recover. 
Lizards, chamelions, milipedes, centipedes, scor- 
pions, tarantulas, etc., creep everywhere ; and there is 
an insect world of astonishing variety and boundless 
extent. 
It is probable that the country possesses consi- 
derable mineral wealth. Antimony has been found 
in Duruma, and there are indications that iron 
exists ; but as yet the geological characteristics of 
the land are but little known. 
Unika, though occupied by thousands of human 
beings, and though it has been so occupied for many 
generations, remains Unika (wilderness) still. Yet 
such is the character of its soil and the variety and 
value of its productions, that we cannot but hope for 
it a better future. This hope, however, is based upon 
the faith we have in the power of the Gospel. The 
people of this land have to be evangelised. At present 
they are too inert to do aught ; but when the Gospel 
shall have found its way into their hearts, and they 
