 | Fanny Louisa Dorothea Herbertson - 1902 - 308 pages
...was most luxurious and the variety of trees and shrubs infinite. What a delightful transformation in nature it was for us. The light, beautiful green of...plants seemed to be trying to crush each other out. Gailyplumaged birds sang lustily or flitted hither and thither, seeking to devour some passing butterfly.... | |
 | 1896 - 768 pages
...pine and cedar trees, and euphorbias spread out their limbs over veritable flower-beds. Geraniums, fuchsias, sweet-peas, and countless other plants, seemed to be trying to crush each other out. On September 17 we arrived at Luku, a place of some importance as an agricultural centre, and we were... | |
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CHANGE. 49 nature it was for us ! The light, beautiful green of the foliage, and the balmy and moist atmosphere, reminded me forcibly of spring-time in my own country, only the variety of the flora and fauna was distinctly African. Giant sycamores, pine-trees,... 