Chapter IV. 



fact that the double peak seen from Kaibo and Butiti as In 

 the centre of the chain and appearing to be the highest of all, 

 is not the Duwoni of Johnston. 



FORD OF WlMl RIVER. 



Leaving the camp of Ibanda the march followed rapidly 

 across the high plain, wliich was swampy here and there, with 

 groves of tall acacia and dracaena and dotted with round smooth 

 boulders. Soon they reached the foot of another buttress, a spur 

 of the right-hand slope of the valley. Here the path became so 

 steep at some points that even those who had no load to carry 

 got out of bi'eath. The natives, who during the first part of 

 the stage kept up their usual cheerful hubbub, now l)ecame 

 silent as they panted up the wearisome ascent, and scattered 

 far and wide, covering a long reach of the way. 



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