In that land of which we have so many records of early and high civilisation, and also such strong evidences of present barbarism, -the land of which we know so much and so little, -the land where Nature exhibits some of her most wonderful creations and greatest contrasts, and where she is also prolific in the great forms of animal and vegetable life, -there, my young reader, let us wander once more. Let us return to Africa, and encounter new scenes in company with old frien