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IN AFRICA 
and reeds six or eight feet tall, while the edges of 
the river were thickly wooded with small trees tan- 
A waiting the Charge 
gled together and interlacing their branches over 
the narrow but deep waters of the Nzoia. 
Down in the jungle depths of this peninsula 
there was a violent commotion among the low 
branches of these trees, an indication that the ani- 
