2i8 In the Heart of Africa 



thence with small loads and more carriers one can get on to 

 the long ridge by a very gradual ascent, apart from the one 

 awkward place mentioned, and on up to Ulimbi, although it 

 certainly would mean a very strenuous day. Then one should 

 not, as Stuhlmann proposes, descend to the lake, but make a 

 detour of the deep breach to the north, arriving in due course 

 at the snows of Mount Stanley. The great advantage of this 

 route would lie particularly in the fact that, before the actual 

 Alpine ascent, there would be no climbing and clambering of 

 much account, and that in clear weather the way could be seen 

 far ahead and the whole surroundings overlooked. Vivat 

 sequens! 



" Shortly after two o'clock I started on the return journey, 

 and was back in camp soon after sunset. My inspired descrip- 

 tion resulted in Schubotz ascending Ulimbi on the next day. 

 He was successful, too, in obtaining a few photographs. In the 

 meanwhile I busied myself with the collections and completed 

 them in the forest in the vicinity of the camp. 



" This forest is not equal in beauty to the Rugege, and it 

 lacks such immense tree giants as the podocarpus and 'mutoie,' 

 found in the Bugoie district. Bamboo stocks of Arundinaria 

 al-pina are interspersed with foliates. The principal trees are: 

 Dombeya leiicoderma K. Schum., Sideroxylon Adolfi Friederici 

 Engl., Olea chrysofhylla Lam., and Olea Hochstetteri Bak., 

 Mystroxylum aethiopicuni (Thunbg.) Loes., Pygeum africanum 

 Hook. /., Allophylus abyssinicus (Hochst.') Radlk., Alanginum 

 begoniifoliuni (^Roxb.), Har?HS., Pittosporum. fragrantissimum 

 Engl., Rhamnus prinoides L'Herit., Maesa Mildbraedii Gilg., 

 Persama spec. The Macaranga kilimandsckarica and Polyscias 

 polybotrya, so frequent in the Rugege and Bugoie forests, I only 

 found in the rather denser forest ranges. 



" On the day following Schubotz's ascent we marched back 

 through the Butagu valley, and on to Beni. Schubotz had 

 originally intended to proceed along the foot of Ruwenzori like 

 the Duke and Wiese, but abandoned the intention on receiving 

 a letter from Wiese informing him that the road was so bad that 



