In Afric’s Forest and Jungle 
merits, but the fright was worse than the hurt. 
Anointing with palm-oil is the favorite native 
remedy. To infants the sting of the smaller 
species is often fatal. We may well imagine, 
therefore, the terror of a missionary’s wife when 
she lighted a candle one night and found six 
scorpions around her baby’s crib. 
The large snakes in this part of the interior, 
are dangerous only as constrictors ; but we had 
snakes in Abeokuta that concealed themselves in 
the short Bermuda grass of the mission station, 
the bite of which is as deadly as the copperhead 
of America. We seldom saw one, but they gave 
us much concern on account of the barefooted 
native children connected with the orphanage. 
In my rambles in the bush back of the mission 
premises, I met with several surprises in the 
fauna of the country. One was a large hare. 
Another was a chamelion. This strange animal 
furnished me much unique entertainment for 
sometime. I knew that its color would change 
according to the thing upon which it was placed, 
but 1 did not know before that it is a double 
animal, one half of it acting entirely independ¬ 
ently of the other, but my observations on this 
occasion forced me to this conclusion. The two 
protruding eyes seldom looked in the same direc- 
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