From the cisalpinae and gum-copal trees bark cloth is made.
We now come to large masses of haematite, which is often ferruginous: there is conglomerate too, many quartz pebbles being intermixed.

It seems as if when the lakes existed in the lower lands, the higher levels gave forth great quantities of water from chalybeate fountains, which deposited this iron ore.

Grey granite or quartz with talc in it or gneiss lie under the haematite.
The forest resounds with singing birds, intent on nidification.
Francolins abound, but are wild.

"Whip-poor-wills," and another bird, which has a more laboured treble note and voice--"Oh, oh, oh!" Gay flowers blush unseen, but the people have a good idea of what is eatable and what not.

I looked at a woman's basket of leaves which she had collected for supper, and it contained eight or ten kinds, with mushrooms and orchidaceous flowers.