Chapter IV. 



fact that the double peak seen from Kaibo and Butiti as in 

 the centre of the chain and appearing to be the highest of all, 

 is not the Duwoni of Johnston. 



FORD OF "Wnil lUYElI. 



Leaving tlie camp of ll)anda the march followed rapidly 

 across the high plain, which was swampy here and there, with 

 gi'oves of tall acacia and dracaena and dotted with round smooth 

 boulders. Soon they readied the foot of another buttress, a spur 

 of the right-hand slope of tlie valley. Here the patii l)ecame so 

 steep at some points that even those wlio liad no load to carry 

 got out of ])reatli. The natives, wlio during the first part of 

 the stage kept up their usual clieerful lml)l)uh. now became 

 silent as they panted up tlie wearisome ascent, and scattered 

 far and wide, covering a long reacli of the way. 



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