Mr. Roosevelt and Medlicott 
. the 
spot where we nooned on the first (unsuccessful) day of lion hunting in the 
Lucania Donga. 
From a photograph by Kermit Roosevelt. 
flowers that smelt like narcissus, blue flow- small and large, dull-colored and of the 
ers, red lilies, orange tiger-lilies, and many most brilliant plumage. For the most part 
others of many kinds and colors, while here they either had no names at all or names 
and there in the pools of the rare rivers grew that meant nothing to us. There were glos- 
the sweet-scented purple lotus-lily. sy starlings of many kinds; and scores of 
There was an infinite variety of birds, species of weaver finches, some brilliantly 
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