Chapter V. 



another hy a huge houklei-. To pass from one of tliese o-roups 

 to the other vou 1ia(l either to go round the boulder, under 

 the perpetual drip of water which, even in fine weather, came 

 oft' the edge of the overhanging rock, or else you must clamber 

 between the boidder and the rocky wall, a feat requiring some 

 acrobatic skill. Close to the tents, in a small space between 

 three heath trees, were arranged the instruments wliicli 

 composed tlie small meteorological observatory. 



By no eftbrt was it possible so to transform tliis inconvenient 

 spot as to create an even tolerable camp, such as would have 

 been desirable for a base station, where the expedition might 

 spend a considerable time, and whither exploring parties might 

 return from the high mountains for rest and refreshment. 

 Unfortuuatelv. there seemed to l)e no place in the region which 

 combined other attractions with a certain measure of shelter 

 from the weather. 



The River Mobuku flows at the foot of Bujongolo more than 

 600 feet Ijelow. The camp stood nearly at tlie entrance of a 

 little tributary valley, which at this point opens out of the right 

 flank of the Mobuku Valley. The latter is visible for a short 

 tract only, not farther than the foot of Kiyanja, at which point 

 it makes a sharp bend to the northward. Kivanja has from 

 this side the apj^earance of a high rocky wall ending in a sharp 

 peak. To tlie left of this peak, at the top of the wall, lies a 

 level glacier overhung by a rounded sunnnit. To the right 

 stretches a jagged ridge, at whose feet flows down into the 

 valley another glacier, partly liidden by the corner formed on 

 the left slope of the Mobuku Valley at tlie point where it turns- 

 to the north. 



Opposite the camp, on the other side of the valley, a spur 

 descends gi-adually down to the plain of Buamba. Beyond this- 



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