We have now entered again the country of the game, but they are so exceedingly shy that we have not yet seen a single animal.

The arrangement into many villages pleases the Africans vastly, for every one who has a few huts under him feels himself in some measure to be a chief.

The country at this time is covered with yellowish grass quite dry.

Some of the bushes and trees are green; others are shedding their leaves, the young buds pushing off the old foliage.

Trees, which in the south stand bare during the winter months, have here but a short period of leaflessness.