"The vast wilderness of bush is so} waterless and so fever-riden during the summer that no human being has ever set foot here before us, The undergrowth Is trampled down by game, including beasts of the rarest species.
"Early this morning the camp aroused by shots fired by a sentry, but the troops tumbled out to a false alarm, The sentry was not firing at the enemy but blazing away to scare laff five ions which were prowling around the camp.
At the end of each day's journey, before turning into sleep under mos-quite nets, anti-aircraft pits are dug for the camp's defences. As to wea-[pons, the officers and non-commission. Jed officers are armed with "Tommy" guns, and the Ethiopian guard with Fifles. "Some of the expedition's machine-guns were captured from the Tallans."—Reuter.
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