The traveller probably sees only a shrubby plant.
It covers many a ridge, and the lonely plains of the uplands, and sends afar its spicy perfume. The botanists call it Tarchonantus camphoratus, L. They class it among the Compositæ.
C. G. Schillings, phot.
A HOT DAY IN THE GREAT RIFT VALLEY.
But here it can no longer exercise any spell.
That has flown far, far away, into the interior. There, where the white man has not yet come, it still prolongs its existence.
How long, yet will it be before it has entirely departed?
GROUP OF MASAI—THE WARRIOR ON THE LEFT DRESSED IN A COSTUME IMPROVISED OUT OF A COLOURED BED QUILT.