It had torn around round the island for about 36 hours, and given it a real thrashing, flattening vegetation, whipping off a few roofs and generally causing trouble.
Charcoal burning has led to serious environmental problems in this region of north-east Uganda, as the majority of vegetation has been destroyed.
Rain forest clearing is responsible for about 75% of Brazil's emissions as vegetation is burned and felled trees rot.
Loutolim is my favourite, surrounded by waterfalls, lush vegetation, whispering monkeys and fruit plantations.
Pyrolysis of forest residues from 200 hectares of timberland, pyrolysis of crop residues from 120 million hectares of farmland, and pyrolysis of fast-growing vegetation from another 30 million hectares of idle cropland could each sequester about ten percent of U.S. annual fossil-fuel emissions.
"I don't think in the circumstances I could easily bring myself to endure a secluded life of scholastic vegetation," the real Roland Leighton wrote.
Vera cannot live a life of scholastic vegetation either, and leaves Oxford to become a nurse.
She spent long vigils lying, mud-splattered in the marshes, lens poking from vegetation, in pursuit of elusive water rails, bearded tits and a juvenile bittern, and her pictures proved the latter species was not extinct in Britain after all.
