CHAPTER VIII 



CLIMBING IN RUWENZORi {continued) 



' When I would get me to the upper fields, 

 I look if anywhere 

 A man be found who craves what joyaunce yields 



The keen thin air, 

 Who loves the rapture of the height, 

 And fain would snatch with me a perilous delight.' 



T. E. Brown. 



A SHORT distance above Bujongolo, where it tiows 

 through a deep and narrow gorge, the Mubuku 

 takes a sharp bend to the right (north), and at the 

 same time the valley widens out into the third and 

 last of the great swampy terraces, at an altitude of 

 rather less than 13,000 feet. As one comes out 

 from the last of the heath forest at the bend of the 

 valley, there is suddenly unfolded a glorious view of 

 mountains and snowfields. In the middle of the 

 view towers up the beautiful peak Kiyanja,* thought 

 by Sir Harry Johnston to be the highest point in the 

 range, with two glaciers on its flanks. To the right, 

 at the head of the valley, the great Mubuku glacierf 

 thrusts its long nose almost down to the valley floor, 



* Named by H.R.H. the Duke of the Abruzzi * King Edward 

 Peak,' a part of the Mount Baker massif, 

 t Moore Glacier. 



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