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EAST AFRICA AND ITS BIG GAME. 
declared, the man told off to look after him would eat 
the rice himself! The poor fellow rallied for a few 
days, and then, though he kept on improving in bodily 
health, went mad and howled like a hysena day and 
night, and in this condition lingered on for nearly a 
month before he died. 
Jackson seemed to be on excellent terms with the 
natives ; he was collecting insects, and every minute of 
the day the small boys would arrive at his hut with all 
sorts of specimens, and he would now and then send 
them off highly delighted with a string of beads or 
an old empty cartridge-case to repay them for their 
trouble. He told me he could not understand what 
Mr. Johnston meant when he stated that the variety of 
insects in these parts was very poor, as he had in three 
months made a very tine collection of curious and 
beautiful beetles and butterflies. We afterwards found 
that our views on many points regarding the country 
and people differed considerably from those which Mr. 
Johnston has expressed in his book on the Kilima¬ 
njaro Expedition. 
The Lumi, a little river running past our camp, takes 
its rise in the north-west slopes of the mountain, and 
flows through Taveta forest into the north end of Lake 
Jipe. It is a narrow stream, measuring only about thirty 
feet across its widest part, but the banks are steep, in 
most places ten feet high, and the water rather deep. 
I tried my hand at fishing without much success, as the 
tackle I had was too thick. The natives were great 
adepts, and by means of a rod made out of a thin palm- 
