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 .. . anyuema country is described by Livingstone as surpassinglybeautiful. Palms crown thehighest heights of themountains, and theirgracefully bendedfronds wave beauti-fully in the wind;and the forests, usu-ally about five milesbroad, betweengroups of villages,are of cablesize in great numbersare hung among thegigantic trees, manyunknown wild fruitsabound, some thesize of
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 .. . anyuema country is described by Livingstone as surpassinglybeautiful. Palms crown thehighest heights of themountains, and theirgracefully bendedfronds wave beauti-fully in the wind;and the forests, usu-ally about five milesbroad, betweengroups of villages,are of cablesize in great numbersare hung among thegigantic trees, manyunknown wild fruitsabound, some thesize of a childs head,and strange birds andmonkeys are every-where. The soil isexcessively rich, andthe people, althoughisolated by old feudsthat are never settled,cultivate largely. They have selecteda kind of maize thatbends its fruit-stalk ants on the march. round into a hook, and hedges some eighteen feet high are made by insert-ing poles, which sprout like Robinson Crusoes hedge, and never of climbing plants are tied so as to go along from pole to pole,and the maize-cobs are suspended to these by their own hooked fruit-stalk. As the corn-cob is forming, the hook is turned round, so that the. 262 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. fruit-leaves of it hang down and form a hatch for the grain beneath orinside it. This upright granary forms a solid-looking wall round the vil-lages, and the people are not stingy, but take down the maize and handit to the men freely. The streets of the villages often run east and west, in order that thebright blazing sun may lick up the moisture quickly from off them. Thedwelling houses are generally in line, with public meeting-houses at eachend, opposite the middle of the street; the roofs are low, but wellthatched with a leaf resembling the banana-leaf, from which the waterruns quickly off. The walls are of well-beaten clay, and screened fromthe weather. Inside, the dwellings are clean and comfortable, and beforethe Arabs came, bugs were unknown. In
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