able, when, as in the case of a missionary, a snake lives in a hole under his writing-table. He knew it must be there, though never saw it. The only proof was, that annually the snake slipped out of its skin and left the discarded skin in the room, and this happened year after year.The python is known in Uganda, so, too, is a snake in the north, of which the natives tell us, but which appears, so far, to be unknown to zoologists. The native story is, that it does not crawl along the ground; that it is much longer than a python, and rears itself up when walking to a height of eight or ten feet; that it makes a great noise as it pushes its way through the grass; that it does not consume its victims as the python, but chews the flesh, as a dog does. We have only native evidence for this.Mice and small rats are innumerable; as are lizards. They infest houses of natives and Europeans alike. The presence of so
