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delightful silver all over. huge Aloe was iu full hlooLi in a 
round red brick ’^ 270 ckery^’ near the path, and gorgeous scarlet hibiscus 
trees bloonied at the corners of the prim arbor-vitae hedge which tried to keep 
out the jungle wilderness beyond 
•fter changing into our collecting 
clothes, -e walkeo ^;own the laountain in another oirection, poking the fallen 
^ellov I ofiVes v 7 ith a pointed stick in search of ; tiny yellow and brown 
toadlike creature ( Lenaroph ^ni scus ) , whic^;., v/nen ,,9 had found some, amuslngl 
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played dead'^ on the paL.us of our hands, lying on their backs v/ith the hind 
legs stiffened and the, eyes shut. 
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cattling little brook 
that Jeaped over s:._all stories and '^oianed ;vhirlpools 3 inci.c;s deep with 
enthusiasin worthy of a better result. I'nere we found a shy green frog 
( Crossodactylus ) sitting in rock crevices, into v/hich it ?/ould disappear un- 
less one grabbed very, very uuickly. ao-iie aquatic d losi a, big and jittle, 
eere swimming in the largest of the little pools, and we took soivb which were 
clinging to the rough concrete lining of a little cistern s^onk in the forest 
floor to impound spring v/ater. :ie found toads hopping among the leaves, 
and tiny Eylodes , the frog ?/hich^iips the tadpole stage entirely, the young 
emerging cirectly from the engs which are buried in clay or in soft earth. 
Vi/Orking c'ownstx*eam, 1 found, the bank covered with an exquisite trailing vine 
bearing gloriously colc3?ed purple berries, and I picked some for seed 
I dug 'or eartbworrns and insect larvae in the soft sand 
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turned 
over stones in the brook, sometimes a species of short, broadbeamed crayfish 
blundered slov/ly out, looking rnore like fossil triloljtes than like their 
agile, stream lined rela tions in horth iunerica* But again I was struck with 
the extreiiiS paucity of anixual life in places where one would exje ct to find 
i :: in utmost abundance in I'd rthdhae rice 
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tone after stone tkut I turned 
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over in the wster yielded nothing, and the ssiie was nearly as true of rooks 
lying on dry land, although 1 found sometimes a beetle or a larval form or a 
