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Seven Years in South Africa.
tinguished which covers the flaky strata of the salt lakes. Just below me was a bare circular patch, which bore no footprints at all except our own and those of the lions that had passed by; on my left was a rain-channel some six feet deep and twenty feet wide, much overgrown, and opening into the Nataspruit about twenty yards away. The nights
![IN THE TREE.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Seven_Years_in_South_Africa%2C_page_066%2C_in_the_tree.jpg/450px-Seven_Years_in_South_Africa%2C_page_066%2C_in_the_tree.jpg)
IN THE TREE.
were now extremely cold, and appeared especially so in contrast to the high temperature of the day, and I took the precaution of tying myself to one of the strongest boughs, in case I should fall asleep; to tumble off might bring me into closer contact with the monarchs of the forest than might be agreeable; but having made myself secure, I soon