Chapter X. 



forest among huge trees, fine podocarpiis, entwined with lianas 

 and ])anib(H) thickets. There were no more senecio nor lobeHa. 

 Troo}).s of monkeys disported themselves in the branches, and 

 the air was full of the song of birds. 



In the eveninc it beean to rain for the first time after ten 

 days of dry weather. It was the only considerable period of 



CR.VTEIt LAKE KAIT.VB.iKOOA, NEAR FORT TORTAL. 



good weather that the expedition bad met with among the 

 mountains. 



On the following day they descended by a path which grew 

 better and better, keeping upon the left bank of the stream. 

 On reaching the bottom of the valley they tm-ned southward, 

 traversing the Bujuku and a small affluent, and made straight 

 for the Mobuku where they found a rougb bridge of bamboos. 



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