. British Central Africa; an attempt to give some account of a portion of the territories under British influence north of the Zambezi. Natural history. 172 BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA we seldom failed to get two or three buck at least. As to the guinea fowl, they were there in swarms ! It was awfully jolly sitting smoking round a huge camp fire, so perfectly safe and yet in- such a wild country with lions roaring at intervals not far away, and the queer sounds of owls and tiger-cats and chirping insects coming from the thick bush. Our boys used to build rough shelters of branches to sleep in and t
. British Central Africa; an attempt to give some account of a portion of the territories under British influence north of the Zambezi. Natural history. 172 BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA we seldom failed to get two or three buck at least. As to the guinea fowl, they were there in swarms ! It was awfully jolly sitting smoking round a huge camp fire, so perfectly safe and yet in- such a wild country with lions roaring at intervals not far away, and the queer sounds of owls and tiger-cats and chirping insects coming from the thick bush. Our boys used to build rough shelters of branches to sleep in and try to keep up fires through the night, more to scare away wild beasts than for any other reason. Recently these little jaunts have been more charming on account of the gorgeousness of the wild flowers, for this is the spring of the year. I am a bit of a botanist, you know, but even if I was not I could not help admiring the gorgeous masses of colour which the different flowers produce among the young green grass, on the bushes, and on the b'vj ;. IN CAMP—AFTER A DAYS SHOOTING "Pazulu, February 14th, " We have had an anxious time here with young McClear. He went down the Upper Shire to look at some land that his father is thinking of investing in for growing sugar (as the sugar cane grows there in tremendous luxuriance and there is a great local demand for sugar), but he is a very careless chap, you know, and what with getting wet through with rain and exposing himself too much to the sun and drinking whatever water he comes across, he has fallen ill with black-water fever since he came back to Blantyre. Nobody can quite account for this peculiar disease. Some people say it comes from turning up the new soil of a very rank kind ; others—and they are generally doctors—assert that the germ is quite different from that in malarial fever, and enters the system from water, either through the pores of the skin in bathing or through the stomach, if the infect
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