Chapter IV. 



from tlie bamboos, from the heaths, from the tall ferns, 

 and from all the leafage of the forest, a chillv drip fell 

 ceaselessly njioii the travellers. 



Bedaubeil with mud from head to foot, their clothes 



TREE - FEI!.\8. 



soaked in water, after crossing the valley as far as its left 

 slope, the expedition reached the foot of a high overhanging 

 cliff at the bottom of a short vallev shut in bv a moraine. 

 This was the so-called Kichuchu C'amp, at a height of 

 9,833 feet above the sea-level, and 1,133 feet above Nakitawa. 

 The rocky wall forms a shelter over a narrow strip, where 

 vou are indeed protected from the pouring rain, but where 

 the soil is soaked with the water which drips off the rock 

 upon it. Here there was room for a single tent only. All 



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