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The
trees
no
longer
formed
impenetrable
masses
,
but
their
nature
was
more
varied
.
There
were
a
kind
of
palm-tree
,
which
gives
an
oil
found
only
in
Africa
;
cotton-trees
forming
thickets
from
eight
to
ten
feet
high
,
whose
wood-stalks
produce
a
cotton
with
long
hairs
,
almost
analogous
to
that
of
Fernambouc
.
From
the
copals
there
oozes
,
by
the
holes
which
certain
insects
make
,
an
odorous
gum
,
which
runs
along
the
ground
and
collects
for
the
wants
of
the
natives
.
Here
spread
the
lemon-trees
,
the
grenadiers
of
a
savage
condition
of
a
country
,
and
twenty
other
odorous
plants
,
which
prove
the
prodigious
fertility
of
this
plateau
of
Central
Africa
.
In
several
places
,
also
,
the
perfume
was
agreeably
mingled
with
the
tine
odor
of
vanilla
,
although
they
could
not
discover
what
tree
exhaled
it
.
This
whole
collection
of
trees
and
plants
was
perfectly
green
,
although
it
was
in
the
middle
of
the
dry
season
,
and
only
rare
storms
could
water
these
luxuriant
forests
.
It
was
then
the
time
for
fevers
;
but
,
as
Livingstone
has
observed
,
they
can
be
cured
by
leaving
the
place
where
they
have
been
contracted
.
Dick
Sand
knew
this
remark
of
the
great
traveler
,
and
he
hoped
that
little
Jack
would
not
contradict
it
.
He
told
it
to
Mrs.
Weldon
,
after
having
observed
that
the
periodical
access
had
not
returned
as
they
feared
,
and
that
the
child
slept
quietly
in
Hercules
'
arms
.
Thus
they
went
forward
carefully
and
rapidly
.
Sometimes
they
discovered
traces
where
men
or
animals
had
recently
passed
.
The
twisted
and
broken
branches
of
the
brushwood
and
the
thickets
afforded
an
opportunity
to
walk
with
a
more
equal
step
.
But
the
greater
part
of
the
time
numerous
obstacles
,
which
they
had
to
overcome
,
retarded
the
little
party
,
to
Dick
Sand
's
great
disappointment
.
There
were
twisted
lianes
that
might
justly
be
compared
with
the
disordered
rigging
of
a
ship
,
certain
vines
similar
to
bent
swords
,
whose
blades
were
ornamented
with
long
thorns
,
vegetable
serpents
,
fifty
or
sixty
feet
long
,
which
had
the
faculty
of
turning
to
prick
the
passer-by
with
their
sharp
spikes
.
The
blacks
,
hatchet
in
hand
,
cut
them
down
with
vigorous
blows
,
but
the
lianes
reappeared
constantly
,
reaching
from
the
earth
to
the
top
of
the
highest
trees
which
they
encircled
.
The
animal
kingdom
was
not
less
curious
than
the
vegetable
kingdom
in
this
part
of
the
province
.
Birds
flew
in
vast
numbers
under
these
powerful
branches
;
but
it
will
be
understood
that
they
had
no
gunshot
to
fear
from
the
men
,
who
wished
to
pass
as
secretly
as
rapidly
.
There
were
Guinea
fowls
in
large
flocks
,
heath-cocks
of
various
kinds
,
very
difficult
to
approach
,
and
some
of
those
birds
which
the
Americans
of
the
North
have
,
by
onomatopoeia
,
called
"
whip-poor-wills
,
"
three
syllables
which
exactly
reproduce
their
cries
.
Dick
Sand
and
Tom
might
truly
have
believed
themselves
in
some
province
of
the
new
continent
.
But
,
alas
!
they
knew
what
to
expect
.
Until
then
the
deer
,
so
dangerous
in
Africa
,
had
not
approached
the
little
troop
.
They
again
saw
,
in
this
first
halt
,
some
giraffes
,
which
Harris
had
undoubtedly
called
ostriches
.
These
swift
animals
passed
rapidly
,
frightened
by
the
apparition
of
a
caravan
in
these
little-frequented
forests
.
In
the
distance
,
on
the
edge
of
the
prairie
,
there
arose
at
times
a
thick
cloud
of
dust
.
It
was
a
herd
of
buffaloes
,
which
galloped
with
the
noise
of
wagons
heavily
laden
.
For
two
miles
Dick
Sand
thus
followed
the
course
of
the
rivulet
which
must
end
in
a
more
important
river
.
He
was
in
haste
to
confide
his
companions
to
the
rapid
current
of
one
of
the
coast
rivers
.
He
felt
sure
that
the
dangers
and
the
fatigue
would
be
much
less
than
on
the
shore
.
Towards
noon
three
miles
had
been
cleared
without
any
bad
incident
or
meeting
.
There
was
no
trace
of
either
Harris
or
Negoro
.
Dingo
had
not
reappeared
.
It
was
necessary
to
halt
to
take
rest
and
nourishment
.
