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SAVAGE SUDAN 
(hi) Elephants and Buffalo 
As we sailed leisurely onwards towards Lake No, two 
incidents befell. The marsh-vegetation along the banks 
grew gigantic, frequently shutting out our view and 
usually forbidding a landing. These green walls of 
papyrus were brightened by the golden-yellow blossoms 
of the ambatch-bush (FEdemone mirabilis) and by huge 
purple convolvuli; ant-hills were often festooned with the 
Whistling Teal. 
Stand in formal upright attitudes. 
crimson flowers of a creeper, while many riverside trees 
were draped to their summits in a clinging mantle of 
lianas, gorgeous in bright-hued blooms. The swamps 
were carpeted with water-lilies (white, golden, and mauve), 
and we saw here true bulrushes for the first time. 
While passing a point known as the Maya Assignora 
(associated, I believe, with Mdlle. Tinne), and busy 
working in my cabin about 3 p.m. I was aroused by 
excited cries of “Fill! Fill!!” ( = elephants). About 
500 yards to the north, stretched a belt of mimosa-forest 
and towards this my men, with wild gesticulations, eagerly 
