"The expedition had now performed its functions. I saw that old father Nile without any doubt rises in the Victoria Ny…"

"The gruff hippopotamus is ... found wherever there is water to float him; whilst the shy giraffe and zebra affect all…"

"[I]f I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners."

"The children play At hide and seek About the monument To Speke. And why should the dead Explorer mind Who has nothing…"

"To say a negro is incapable of instruction, is a mere absurdity; for those few boys who have been educated in our sch…"

"I profess accurately to describe naked Africa—Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse,…"

"The prowling, restless elephant, ... though rarely seen, leaves indications of his nocturnal excursions in every wild…"

"Each has two (sometimes three or more) thin flat ..., at the base of each of which is a swollen part, lined with hair…"

"... ' is widely spread over the north temperate and colder regions of the . In Great Britain it is a common plant, be…"

"and factors, though frequently of great importance, are usually indirect in their action, influencing plants by modif…"