At each of these, six huts for the troops, each capable of holding seventy men, had been built, together with some smaller huts for officers.

Great filters formed of iron tanks with sand and charcoal at the bottom, the invention of Captain Crease, R.M.A., stood before the huts, with tubs at which the native bearers could quench their thirst.

Along by the side of the road a single telegraph wire was supported on bamboos fifteen feet long.
Passing through Assaiboo they entered the thick bush.

The giant cotton trees had now shed their light feathery foliage, resembling that of an acacia, and the straight, round, even trunks looked like the skeletons of some giant or primeval vegetation rising above the sea of foliage below.

White lilies, pink flowers of a bulbous plant, clusters of yellow acacia blossoms, occasionally brightened the roadside, and some of the old village clearings were covered with a low bush bearing a yellow blossom, and convolvuli white, buff, and pink.