CHAPTER XVI. 
Rkmarkabi^e: Scenery in Tropicae Aerica Visited by Roose- 
vEET—M asses oe Rocky Mountains—Foeiage Bright with 
AEE the CoEORS oe THE RaiNBOW—RaNK GrOWTHS OE 
Rushes and Grass—Varieties oe Animae Liee—The 
Sacred Ibis—The Long-eEGGEd Stork and Heron—Prime- 
VAE Forests and Running Streams—Fine Specimens 
OE Feowers—Perpetuae Moisture—TurteE Doves and 
Goeden Pheasants—Grave-eooking Monkeys—Beautieue 
Vaeeeys and Hieesides—The Beautieue in Nature 
Marred by Human Crueety—Cities Buiet by Insects. 
A FAMOUS Traveler wrote the following description of the 
scenery of Africa, which was penetrated by Col. Roosevelt: 
Unyamwezi is a wide undulating table-land, sinking westward 
toward Tanganyika. Any one taking a bird’s-eye view of the land 
would perceive forest, a purple-hued carpet of foliage, broken here 
and there by barren plains and open glades, extending toward every 
quarter of the heavens. Here and there rise masses of rocky moun¬ 
tains, towering like blunt cupolas above the gentle undulations of 
the land, on to the distant horizon. Standing upon any projecting 
point, a scene never before witnessed meets the view. Nothing 
picturesque can be seen; the landscape may be called prosaic and 
monotonous; but it is in this very overwhelming, apparently endless, 
monotony that its sublimity lies. 
The foliage is bright with all the colors of the prism; but as 
the woods retreat towards the far distance, a silent mystical vapor 
enfolds them, and bathes them first in pale, and then in dark blue, 
until they are lost in the distance. But near the lake all is busy life. 
The shore immediately adjoining the Lake of Ugogo is formed by 
a morass of at least sixty feet wide, and extending on every side. 
It is an impenetrable tangle of luxuriant sedge and rushes, where 
the unwieldy hippopotamus, going his nightly rounds, has left his 
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