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nearly so dense as on the other sides and that a way through 
it might be found without any extraordinary difficulty. 
On returning to Nairobi what was my chagrin on learning 
that a surveying party led by Mr. McGregor Ross was, at 
the very time we were restlessly waiting for our supplies at 
the foot of the mountain, making its way through the very 
forest belt that daily I searched with my glasses; and that 
having done so, they camped on the bare, heathy uplands 
that rose gradually to snow-level, and at a height of over ten 
thousand feet made a complete circuit of the peaks. 
The scientific results of this remarkable expedition will 
soon be published, and with them I hope will appear, in some 
more popular form, Mr. Ross’s beautiful series of telephotic 
photographs. 
Mr. Ross tells me that a path through heavy woods and 
giant bamboo (the bamboo was often over sixty feet in 
height) was found. He passed these supposedly insuperable 
obstacles in two days’ march, and that after this the upper 
mountain lands presented no difficulty whatever. 
A trip to the snowy basin of Kenia will now be within the 
powers of any reasonably equipped sefari. ‘Ten days from 
Naivasha should see camp pitched on the edge of its principal 
glacier. So much for the unexpected in East Africa! 
Herds of elephant and buffalo were common amid these 
untrodden mountain solitudes. The explorers’ time, how- 
ever, was so taken up with scientific work that no hunting 
was done. 
All round Kenia on the dry slopes of the Guasi Nyiro 
and farther to the northeast in the little known district 
of Meru, once dangerous but now pacified, is the chosen 
home of the rhino. It was in marching through the cactus 
lands of the Guasi Nyiro that Chanler’s expedition, in the 
early nineties, was so tormented by their constant attentions. 
Lieutenant Von Héhnel was terribly wounded by one of 
these beasts, and had to be carried to the coast. The 
