Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . e sky became clearagain, and gave the same feeling of sudden change to the eye as a lightsuddenly brought into a dark place. Extraordinary Storm Pillars. Whirlwinds are generally preceded by a sultry, oppressive air; some-times by absolute calm ; but the state of the wind never appears clearlyconnected with the phenomena. The storm pillars vary greatly in form,the sand columns being general
Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . e sky became clearagain, and gave the same feeling of sudden change to the eye as a lightsuddenly brought into a dark place. Extraordinary Storm Pillars. Whirlwinds are generally preceded by a sultry, oppressive air; some-times by absolute calm ; but the state of the wind never appears clearlyconnected with the phenomena. The storm pillars vary greatly in form,the sand columns being generally funnel-shaped, and the water-spoutslike a pipe surrounded at the base by whirling vapors and foaming height and diameter are also variable; some of the highest havebeen estimated at 6,000 feet. In many cases the damage caused by thewater is of such a kind as to show that there has been an influx of airfrom every side toward the base of the column. But hurricanes, cyclones, and all the rush and roar of the elements,are not more wonderful than the curious forms of animal and insect lifeabounding in the Dark Continent. The reptile tribe is represented here by some of its most distinguished. 598 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. members. The monitor-lizard crawls along the river banks; the moun-tain-monitor frequents the desert; a beautiful turtle lives in the the furrows and trenches, nimble bright-colored lizards bask inthe sun, and the slippery skink burrows in the wall of almost everyhouse. Along the walls of the houses dart and glide the nocturnal littlegekkoes, the greedy but otherwise inoffensive fathers of and there i!ipon the trees is seen the changeful play of color of thefamiliar chameleon, while other reptiles, often brightly-colored, and someof them more than a yard long, love the desert solitudes. Egypt wasalways famous as the land of snakes. It has about twenty varieties,poisonous and non-poisonous. As in the days of Moses, so in our owntim
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