10 MR. G. MANN’S EXPEDITION 
Isabel and had rested, Consul Burton climbed to the top and made 
his observations, while I completed a sketch and collected till 
5 r.M. We slept in the crater of this mountain, and on the next 
day went to a small crater where Mr. Saker had previously had 
his resting-place. After enjoying ourselves a little, we went to 
the principal peak, and, when we had reached it, turned to the east 
in order to have a view in a north-east direction. On reaching the 
shoulder of the mountain, we again found ourselves upon an ex- 
tended lava-field, with the crater of Mount Victoria straight be- 
fore us. While I made a sketch of it, Consul Burton went towards 
it; and I followed a little more to the eastward, where I, for the 
first time, saw the north-east direction of the range, which looked 
like a plain. When I reached the crater, I found it was much 
larger than any I had before seen, being considerably larger than 
that of the peak of Fernando Po. The absence of our people 
prevented Consul Burton from making the observations he 
intended. I found on the eastern side much more of interest 
than on the west, as it was more or less covered with vegetation 
to the top. I found, amongst other things, the pretty erect 
Lycopodium, No. 1410, of the collection, the very pretty Composite 
Senecio Burtoni, M. f., and Anthospermum asperuloides. Heli- 
chrysum Mannii grew everywhere at the bottom of the mountain, 
and on this side extended to the top. The Ericinella and the 
Cytisus both reach to the middle of the mountain. Mount 
Albert is, without doubt, of more recent formation than Mount 
Victoria, or it would be clothed with more luxuriant vegetation 
than the latter, as the wind is nearly always N.E., and I have 
always observed the vegetation to be far poorer on the side ex- 
posed to it. On the next day I visited this side again, and added 
some mosses to my collection, while Consul Burton visited the 
Prince’s and Albert craters, and employed himself in measur- 
ing the distances. After I had again ascended Mount Victoria, 
and had made drawings of the two craters mentioned above, and 
of Mount Albert, I set off to the latter to fetch the thermometer ; 
but to my sorrow I found it in a very different place to that in 
which I had left it, hanging only on one hook, and with the bulb 
uppermost, the spirit having changed from a red to a pale yellow 
colour. By this misfortune I lost the result of a month, and must 
be content with daily observation. After having rearranged it, 
and taken a good view of the unvisited mountain-chain to the 
north-east, I set off towards the crater, where I met Consul Bur- 
ton, who had sent his servant to erect the British flag on Mount 
