In wildest Africa : the record of a hunting and exploration trip through Uganda, Victoria Nyanza, the Kilimanjaro region and British East Africa, with an account of an ascent of the snowfields of Mount Kibo, in East Central Africa, and a description of the various native tribes . s due to the peculiar climaticconditions of this region. Along the banks of the rivers and on the nearbyplains there occur deep forest belts, and also on themountains of the interior, where the rain is perennial. The coastal swamps are covered with widestretches of Yungi-Yungi or lotus-water-lily with itsblue flower m
In wildest Africa : the record of a hunting and exploration trip through Uganda, Victoria Nyanza, the Kilimanjaro region and British East Africa, with an account of an ascent of the snowfields of Mount Kibo, in East Central Africa, and a description of the various native tribes . s due to the peculiar climaticconditions of this region. Along the banks of the rivers and on the nearbyplains there occur deep forest belts, and also on themountains of the interior, where the rain is perennial. The coastal swamps are covered with widestretches of Yungi-Yungi or lotus-water-lily with itsblue flower mingled with the small yellow bladder-wort. Near the coast are to be seen the screw-pines,with mammoth spiral rosettes of leaves, trailingrubber vines and lianas looking like huge ropes orcables. The baobabs are an extremely striking addi-tion to the landscapes, with their massive trunksarching over toward each other, and their irregularlyknobbed branches appearing as a whole like ruinedarches — relics of the works of man. There arealso the silk-cotton trees and branch-dum palms, allof which vary the monotony of the scene. Most of the trees and vegetation named are foundonly in the coast zone. On leaving the coast, andafter a journey of but a few miles inland, the palms,. The Uganda Railway 105 mangoes and all the fruit trees are replaced by thethick stems of huge candelabra-shaped euphorbiasand sharp-spiked aloes, saw-leaved sansevieras and,everywhere, the thorny acacia shrub. There is butlittle else and it is certainly tiresome and monot-onous. After long weary miles of this sameness, it wasa relief to arrive at the higher level in the interior,where there is a hea\y rainfall and where it is evenlydistributed the year round. There is no more ofthe thorny scrub which is replaced by luxuriantgreen shrubs, and the occasional tufts of des^t grassthicken into fine rich turf. There are meadow flow-ers such as we see in this country and in Europe,and grand timber trees furnish shad
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