-* Stalking Expeditions in the Xyika 



\vill hide it from our sight. Beside it \ve see the 

 Mawenzi a dark, threatening, desolate dome of rocks. 



As we 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; ot 



time ot 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 ot mammals (as do the Abyssinian 

 mountains), because the "wave ot boreal lite' in the 

 I )iluvial Period was unable to penetrate so tar as the 

 Kmiator. The fire-breathing '>ull\s of the Kilimanjaro 



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at one time strewed masses ot lava all around like .sand. 



To our right, in a deep hollow ot the ground, 



there stretch papyrus-grown marshes the wester \ \|in 



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