Savage Sudan : its wild tribes, big-game and bird-life (1921)
Chapman, Abel, 1851-1929, Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) · London ; Edinburgh : Gurney and Jackson · leaf 478
hatever. Thus, for example, alongshore one comes across colonies of weird land-crabs, which build regular villages of pyramidal watch-towers, upon the apex of which each crustacean owner basks in the sunshine; but each alert, on the approach of danger, to slither down sidelong to the refuge of his… … A Colony of Watch-tower Crabs. Here, on the coast, the local race was conspicuously distinct in colour-plan from my recollection1 of those of the interior deserts, being of a clear pale grey (which Is a cold colour), as against dun or drab (which is warm). Apparently, in this instance, Nature had…
Hunting -- Sudan · Natural history -- Sudan · Sudan -- Description and travel
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