47. At night the African herdsman brings his cattle inside his thorn boma and stands guard against that ever hungry night prowler, the lion.

48. Not many years ago, it was a daring sailorman who dared venture ashore in Africa. The dreaded slave ships lost many a crewman in ambush.

49. The black magician is also the medicine man and sometimes works remarkable cures with his strange mixtures of powders, potions and brews.

50. Swamp dwellers are usually tall and slender and though tormented by insects, do not leave their homes but cover themselves with ashes.

51. In Africa nature knows no armistice and the traveler does well to go armed and ready to fight for his life against the hunger driven beasts.

52. Among The most savage fighters of Africa is the baboon, fearless and bad tempered. They will attack in numbers and kill even the leopard.

53. Tuaregs, the veiled desert fighters, once attacked the salt caravans bound for Timbuctu, for salt is one of Africa's most precious commodities.

54. Great fur-laden cargo canoes make regular trips to Timbuctu 800 miles inland from the nearest coast and trade jungle wares for city goods.

55. Many a sandy rock-strewn valley trail to some distant city is infested with that evil-odored, slope-backed, iron-jawed scavenger, the hyena.

56. When tribes are unfriendly, a boundary line is marked beyond which armed enemy patrols wait in hiding to capture the wanderer and the host.

57. Although the rhinoceros is difficult to kill, he is hunted for his horns which the native believes can restore his youth and strength.

58. The dark sorcerer is no fool but a master psychologist and often a skilled hypnotist who convinces large audiences they have seen miracles.

59. Some tribes have been driven across the plains and through the jungle by their enemies and have finally made their homes on steep mountainsides.

60. In Africa tribesmen engage in bracelet fights. These bracelets are sharp circular blades lashed to the wrists and inflict deep and ugly cuts.