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will hide it from our sight. Beside it we see the 

 Mawen/i a dark, threatening, desolate dome of rocks. 



.As \ve move forward over the scattered blocks of 

 lava we are reminded that this rocky region was once 

 the scene ot some.' tremendous volcano's display ot power 

 a primeval convulsion to whose forces, according to Hans 

 Mever. is to be attributed the foundation in course of 



SNOW-CAl'I'ED KILIMANJARO. THE MOUNTAIN IS OFTEN 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 ranging. 



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 fire-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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