Chapter X. 



forest among huge trees, fine podocarpus, entwined with Hanas 

 and bamboo thickets. There were no more senecio nor lobeUa. 

 Troops of monkeys disported themselves in the branches, and 

 the air was full of the song of birds. 



In the eveninix it beofan to rain for the first time after ten 

 days of dry weather. It was the only considerable period of 



CRATEi: LAKE KAITABAROGA, NEAR Ff)KT I>ORTAI>. 



good weather that the expedition liad met with among the 

 mountains. 



On the following day they descended ])y a ])ath which grew 

 better and better, keeping upon the left bank of the stream. 

 On reaching the l)ottom of the valley they turned southward, 

 traversing the Bujuku and a small afiluent, and made straight 

 for the Mobuku where they found a loiigli bridge of bamboos. 



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