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 .. . the approach of man it flies away, and when frightened by shots itrises to a great altitude and never returns to its swamps as long as thereis any suspicion of danger. This bird selects for its breeding place asmall elevation in the reeds, either immediately on the border of thewater or in the swamp, mostly where surrounding water renders anapproach difficult. Wonderful Luxuriance. The
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 .. . the approach of man it flies away, and when frightened by shots itrises to a great altitude and never returns to its swamps as long as thereis any suspicion of danger. This bird selects for its breeding place asmall elevation in the reeds, either immediately on the border of thewater or in the swamp, mostly where surrounding water renders anapproach difficult. Wonderful Luxuriance. The flora concentrates all its luxuriance in the first months of the rainyseason, leaving the autumn, when the grass of the steppes is withered, tofare less richly. The scenery varies much less than in the most mo-notonous districts of our own country, but it has nevertheless its alter-nation of clustering groves of bushes, its clearings with noble trees morethan thirty or forty feet in height, its luxuriant undergrowth broken bygrassy reaches or copses of tall shrubs. Palms play a subordinate part in this scenery; the fan palms are foundclustered together in groves; and in the marshy steppes grows the. STRANGE AFRICAN SHOEBILL. (588) 584 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. prickly date, perhaps the primitive type of the date palm. Then comethe leather-leaved fig trees of every kind, and among them the grandestmonuments of African vegetation, the sycamores, together with large-leaved tamarinds. Very characteristic of the country are the patches of primeval forests,watered by running streams, and known by the name of galleries. Thesoil is unusually rich in springs of water, which keep up a perpetualoverflow of the brooks ; and while in the northern districts the rivershave to find their way across open lowlands where the volume of watersoon diminishes, and is lost in the parched earth, the country here is likea well-filled sponge. The result of this abundant moisture is that thevalleys and fis
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