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Title: Scenes from every land, second series; a collection of 250 illustracions picturing the people, natural phenomena, and animal life in all parts of the world. With one map and a bibliography of gazetteers, atlases, and books descriptive of foreign countries and natural history
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Grosvenor, Gilbert Hovey, 1875-1966 National Geographic Society (U.S.)
Subjects: Views Physical anthropology
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National geographic society
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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BUS MONKEY The Colobus Monkey is found throughout the Uganda Proteclonit. und much else oftropical Africa, wherever the forest is dense enough, no matter whether it ho cold of climateor always hot. The Andorobo who lurk in these forests live mainly on the flesh of t his creature,which they shoot from below with poisoned arrows. Having satisfied their hunger on itsflesh, they sell the skin, with its long, silky black and white hair, and its tail, with the immensesilky plume at the end, to the Ma.sai or other warlike races, who make it into head-dresses orcapes, or else to the European or Swahili trader.— Pholos by Dr. C. E. Akeley.(50 1 SCENES FROM EVERY LAND
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SPI-:(IMK\S OF THE WART-HOG AM) HIPPOPOTAMUS SHOT INEAST AFRICAThe grotesque wart-hog. with his large, curling tushes is very numerous throughout thedrier, sandier districts; their unsightly warts, two on each cheek, are much larger in the boarthan in the sow, as are also the tushes, which in the former animal sometimes grow to such asize as to end their points up to a line with the eyes. They are very fierce when cornered.The body is of dark-reddish brown, and is an exceedingly welcome addition to the .sportmanslarder. The common hippopotamus is still found in every river with water enough to coverhis recumbent body, and in nearly every lake or marsh in the Uganda Protectorate. Theanimal is very dangerous to navigation at the north end of Lake Albert and on the UpperNile. He is consequently not much protected by the game regulations (purpo.sely). as thereis no immediate danger of his becoming extinct, for in the vast marshes he will be preservedfrom the white mans rifle, and will be

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