From Fort Portal to Bujongolo — -]\Iobuku Valley. 



leave-taking was as sober and dignified as jiossible : t^acli 

 woman knelt before lier husband, who placed one hand n}»i>n 

 her head. 



As has been said. Fort Portal is situated upon the heights 

 whicli divide the basin of Lake Ali)ert from that of Lake 



FORT ruKTAL. 



Albert Edwai-d. The latter is connected 1)V a short, narrow 

 watercourse with Lake Dueru or Kuisaiiilia. which lies in the 

 liollow called " Albertine Valley." at the foot of tlie eastern slope 

 of" liuwenzori, and receives all the waters wliich flow down 

 from the ciiain on that side. To reach the Mobuku Valley 

 the path skirts tlie u])per l)asin of Lake Ruisamba witliout 

 descendinir to the lake, runnin"- first alona: tlie hills which 

 form the watershed, and then following the eastern foot of the 



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