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tween the hours of nine o'clock in the morning and four in
the afternoon without a pith or a cork helmet. Rain falls on
an average of two hundred days in the year.
For the most part the country is covered with a jungle so
dense that a human being cannot make his wav through it
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save as he hews for himself a road or follows the paths of the
wild beasts. These jungles are the homes of the rhi-
Flora and noceros, the hippopotamus, the elephant, the buffalo,
Fauna wild cattle, deer, bear, tigers, panthers, monkeys, pigs,
monstrous serpents, and thousands of smaller animals
and creeping things.
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