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Stalking Expeditions in the Nyika 



will hide it from our siQ^ht. Beside it we see the 

 Mawenzi- — a dark, threatening, desolate dome of rocks. 



As we move forward over the scattered blocks of 

 lava we are reminded that this rocky reoion was once 

 the scene of some tremendous volcano's display of power — 

 a primeval convulsion to whose forces, according to Hans 

 Mever, is to be attributed the foundation in course of 





<NO\V-CAPI'KI) KII.niA.XJARO. THE MdlNTAIX IS ( jl TKN HIDDEN FROM 

 VIEW FOR MONTHS AT A TIME BY MISTS AND CLOUDS 



time of the "Great Rift Valley" — the choked-up tract 

 over which we are now rangfino^. 



According to the same author, Kilimanjaro no longer 

 harbours northerly types of mammals (as do the Abyssinian 

 mountains), because the "wave of boreal life" in the 

 Diluvial Period was unable to penetrate so far as the 

 Equator. The hre-breathing gullys of the Kilimanjaro 

 at one time strewed masses of lava all around like sand. 



To our right, in a deep hollow of the ground, 

 there stretch papyrus-grown marshes — the westerly Njiri 



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