,JAXT LOBELIAS 



when 1 was glad to find there were fewer beetles than 

 before. 



The two mules which had been left behind were 

 brought in, and I had a busy time generally, inspecting 

 and rearranging camp-kit and loads. 



Next morning — Sunday, 24th June — I got the caravan 

 away at 7.30, and went over to the new church, where 

 the governor antl a large 

 suite met me. I took several 

 photos, many of the people 

 carefully covering their mouths 

 as a precaution against evil. 

 The Balambaras accompanied 

 me for some little distance 

 and then took leave ; I com- 

 mended to his care three ot 

 my men who were sick, and 

 gave him as a present various 

 small articles for which I heard q,^^^ ^ ,. ,. 



he had e.xpressed a wish. 



We steadily ascended till 12.45, 'I '-'"l^' ^^'"'"^^ blowing 

 in our faces. Below us, on our left, lay the Serracum 

 valle\-, the head of which was our immediate goal. The 

 ground over which we passed was covered with short 

 coarse grass and dotted with most curious trees, the like 

 of which I have seen nowhere else. The natives call 

 them Gibarrar, and the species has been identified from 

 my photographs by Dr. Maxwell Masters as Lobelia 

 rhyncJiopclaliuu, a giant member of a genus in which the 

 species are usually small, and one hitherto but little known. 

 It has the appearance of a dwarf pair 



with a stem from 



