Chapter IV. 



from tlu' ]);iiiiboos, from the heaths, from the tall ferns, 

 and from all the leafage of the forest, a chilly drip fell 

 ceaselessly upon the travellers. 



Bedaiihi'd with mud tVoiii head to foot, their clothes 



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soaked in water, after crossino^ the valley as far as its left 

 slope, the expedition reached the foot of a high overhanging 

 cliH' at the hottom of a short vallev shut in hy a moraine. 

 This was tlie so-called Kichuchu Camp, at a lieight of 

 9,833 feet ahov(^ the seadevel, and I . I :{:■) feet above Nakitawa. 

 The rooky wall forms a shelter onci- a narrow sti'i]i, where 

 vou aie indeed pi-otected froiii the poui'ing rain, hut where 

 tiie soil is soaked with the water which drips otf the rock 

 upon it. Here there was room for a single tent only. All 



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