232 WAR: CAMPAIGNING IN EAST AFRICA 



apparently consisted of one huge slippery rock 

 and rose high and clear from the lower block of 

 the mountain, were scattered freely about. To 

 what height some of these awful rocks rise I can- 

 not tell, but it must be many thousand feet, and 

 most of them appear quite inaccessible to any 

 climber. One of the biggest and grandest of 

 them all is the great peak of Mcopa, near Mahua : 

 this we saw for three days before we reached it. 

 Sometimes, when camping below these mountains, 

 I have wondered how far back in time one would 

 have to go before the slightest change in that cold- 

 looking mass would be noticeable. If one could 

 but ask the great peaks, " Were you just as this 

 in the days of Cephren 6,000 years ago ? ■' the 

 answer could only be, " In the days of Cephren ? 

 Why, that's now ! M 



From Coronga we went off south, below Nanungu 

 to Mahua, the base of another " Norforce " column 

 which had just left to move in towards Corewa 

 and Nanungu. On the way back " the woods 

 were full of Indians," and we had to be careful, 

 but I did not know till I reached the column 

 near Nanungu that Von Lettow's whole force, 

 after a stiff fight near Corewa, had broken south- 

 west. He had evidently crossed just about a day 

 behind us on our return journey, for we had marked 

 no big enemy track. 



After a day's spell we were off again, this time 

 on the enemy's left, to watch for any sign of the 

 enemy working out or sending detachments 



