210 VALLEY OF THE WAHIRIA. 
up, where his wife lived with the pigs and 
dogs! ‘This being the last station on the road 
to the Wahiria Lake, it was determined to 
spend the night here. Before they set forward 
in the morning, a large pig was tied up, to be 
prepared for killing on the expected return of 
Mr. Hoffman and his associates, whom the hos- 
pitable Tibu accompanied on the remainder of 
t heir journey. 
Here every vestige of a path disappeared. 
At a height of seven hundred and eleven feet 
above the level of the sea, the travellers found 
enormous blocks of granite lying in a south- 
easterly direction. The way to Wahiria lay 
towards the south-south-west. They continued 
ascending till they reached a marsh in a rocky 
bason, where wild boars were running about. 
Another steep precipice was to be climbed 
before they could reach the Valley of the Wa- 
hiria. This stretches from north to south, and 
forms an oval, in the centre of which lies the 
lake, according to barometrical measurement, 
one thousand four hundred and fifty feet above 
the level of the sea. The surrounding rocks 
rise perpendicularly more than two thou- 
