Chapter TTI. 



Ill iimnbers, while between the hillocks were open spaces of 

 ijroinid nearlv liarren save for a prowth of reddish -vellow trrass 

 mingled with low ferns. The plantain groves diminished in 

 extent and were in })art replaced Ijy sweet jjotatoes and beans. 

 The district was lessthicklv populated than that which preceded. 



The march was often heavy and fatiguing. The weather 

 had clianged for the worse, and frei[uent rainfalls made the 

 track muddv and slippery. 



As the expedition drew nearer to the Lakes Albert and 

 Albert Edward, their impatience to see the chain of Ruwenzori 



NEAR BUTrn, WITH KVWEN'ZOEI IX THE EACKOROUND. 



grew acute, and from the moment wlien they entered the TorO' 

 district their attention concentrated itself upon the western 

 horizon, esjjecially when the path led tliem over the top of some 



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