From Fort Portal to Biijongolo — Mobuku Valley, 



fseenis pi'imeval, of some period when forms were uncertain and 

 provisory. The silence is profonnd, and tlie absence of any 

 sign of life completes the image of a remote age before the 

 beginning of animal existence, such as might have been those 

 forests which have given us the strata of coal fossils. 



Faint and indistinct tracks on the moss and the fallen 

 trunks indicate the wav. The travellers proceed, leaping and 



I.DIiELIAS IN THE HKATH FOREST. 



balancing themselves upon the slippery trunks, in continual 

 <langer of putting their foot in a deep hole and falling in the 

 openings between the trunks, wlience tliev would be likely to 

 emerge with broken bones or otiier injuries. The Bakonjos 



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