. moonlight; but it was noticed in time and driven off. There were numerous birds and crocodiles in our creek, and we often heard the snorting of hippopotami. The only representative of the insect world were flies, of which there were such immense numbers that we had to sit in darkness, for they put out our lights as fast as they were lit. Saturday, March 17. — Ac- cording to Lembasso, we should now have to march at some little distance from the lake. Appa- rently, however, he did not know very much about the way or the water conditions ; and as we ex- pected to have to cross a wide stretch of
. moonlight; but it was noticed in time and driven off. There were numerous birds and crocodiles in our creek, and we often heard the snorting of hippopotami. The only representative of the insect world were flies, of which there were such immense numbers that we had to sit in darkness, for they put out our lights as fast as they were lit. Saturday, March 17. — Ac- cording to Lembasso, we should now have to march at some little distance from the lake. Appa- rently, however, he did not know very much about the way or the water conditions ; and as we ex- pected to have to cross a wide stretch of country without water, we started earlier than usual. Mount Longendoti, which consists of several peaks of a relative height of from 1,000 to 1,300 feet, and the long ridge sloping away to the north abutting on it, re- mained close to us on our left. We now went due north by fairly straight paths, the ground being at first covered with soil, but barren, whilst later it was strewn with white sand, in which, how- ever, grew both trees and bush.
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