From Fort Portal to Bujongolo — ^Mobuku Valley. 



The ground was carpeted witli a deep layer of lycopodium 

 and springy moss, and thickly dotted with big clumps of the 

 papery flowers, pink, yellow, and silver white of the helichrysum 

 or everlasting, above which rose the tall columnar stalks of the 

 lobelia, like funereal torches, beside huge branching groups of 

 the monster senecio. The impression produced was beyond 



THE HEATH FOREST. 



\vords to describe ; the spectacle was too weird, too improbable, 

 too imlike all familiar images, and upon the whole brooded the 

 same grave deathly silence. 



Here and there, where the face of the cliff was so steep and 

 smooth tliat no other plant could take root, were great golden 



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