6 MR. G. MANN'S EXPEDITION 
time, the third species of Zmpatiens and the various Umbellifere 
of the collection. My portfolio was soon filled, and I left the 
collecting of most of the plants until another visit. 
After penetrating a few hundred paces into the wood, we found 
a spring which afforded good water in abundance. This was a 
most fortunate circumstance, as it removed all the difficulties I 
had dreaded, and made me nearly independent of the natives. 
(Alt. 7880 ft.) After filling our vessel with water, I wandered 
about comfortable and happy; and when we had gone half-an- 
hour's walk further, we came to a small hut, in which some of 
the natives prepared their beds, while I pitehed my tent close by, 
—the rest of the party going a little further to a hollow, as there 
was not room enough in the small hut for all. I was only dis- 
turbed once in the night by the howling of a hyzna close by 
my tent, and, after a sound sleep, was awakened in the morning 
by the laughing ery already mentioned, from the natives in the 
hollow. 
As we proceeded, numerous mountains rose before us, and 
amongst them one distinguished by its height. Towards this I 
turned, with the intention of ascending it, but had not reached it 
when I perceived that nearly all the natives had left me; and the 
two who remained also refused to go any further. I desired them 
to await my return, and I went on, with both my Kroomen, to the 
mountain. When I reached its foot, I saw a still higher one, to 
which I then turned ; but I was for some minutes enveloped in so 
dense a cloud that I could see nothing.around me; moreover, not 
being able to go much further, since I had no food, and the natives 
had gone back, I returned to the mountain we had left. Its sum- 
mit (alt. 9139 ft.) I now climbed, and hung up my self-registering 
thermometer, and following the natives, who indicated to me the 
road by the blowing of a cow-trumpet, as the clouds prevented 
my seeing more than ten paces ahead, I soon reached the top, 
and turned directly to the lava-field. On that being crossed, I 
observed, on the borders of the wood, Cynoglossum micranthum 
aud the Adiantum, No. 1367, and later, on another field of lava, 
the Cheilanthes, No. 1372: Trifolium Simense, Cyanotis Abyssinica, 
and a species of Zabenaria were all dried up. On returning, I 
found the descent of the lava-stream as difficult and fatiguing as 
the ascent, and reached Mapanya again at about six in the evening, 
without shoes, as both the pairs which I had taken with me were 
completely destroyed by the sharp lava. 
On the following afternoon I heard that Europeans were ap- 
