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VALLEYS ON RUWENZORl.' ' " "^ "9V 



The difficulty is to understand how they got 

 there. I have never seen birds either swallowing 

 or carrying about on their feet the seeds of the 

 three plants named (I could also mention the 

 Forget-me-not, the Willow herb, the St. John's 

 Wort, &c), so that one must hold it as proved 

 that there was once a continuous European 

 climate from the original birthplace of most of 

 our genera (the Garden of Eden — vegetable de- 

 partment) to Ruwenzori, Kenia, and Kilimandjaro 

 on the one side, and Ireland on the other. My 

 own beliefs on this subject will be found in 

 Chapter XII. 



As my strength returned I managed to get to 

 know the forest fairly well, and at last, greatly 

 to my disgust, found myself at the top, which 

 was only 10,544 feet, showing, of course, that I 

 was much too far to the north and only on the 

 ridge of the mountain. 



It perhaps will give a good idea of the cha- 

 racter of Euwenzori to describe the position of 

 my camp at Kivata. 



It was on a sort of buttress. On one side 

 there was a very steep descent, leading to a 

 small stream about 1,000 feet below, which 

 curved round the prolongation of my ridge to 

 join the Msonje river ; to which latter there was 

 an almost equally steep descent on the north. 



Below me lay a few rounded hills clustering- 

 near the foot of the mountain, and on them lay 



