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through a dense thicket bamboo, and again found ourselves con- 
fronted by an ugly barrier of precipitous cliffs , Which were duly sur- 
mounted with the friendly aid of tufts = tussock- -grass, which firmly 
adhered to the crevices of the rocks. Another hour’s climb up a Steep, 
grassy glen, brought us to the Sie of the ihesi ridge, the sky-line of 
which we had so ‘To ong sought to 
Here the scene spread. out to Shen and the climate were ee as c 
to repay us for our day o MÀ toil. Looking westw 
its numerous ravi rivulets, all shaping their course t the 
- principal vi of- ‘the m through which the Lutshenya, the 
main stream, s. The climate here was delightfully cool and bracing. 
During the rebel on the lower ridges of the mountains, at over 4 000 
feet lower than this. point, we had sweltered in a stifling heat of 106 
degrees Fahrenheit in the shade; while here we revelled in a clear, dry, 
health-restoring atmosphere of 60 degrees Fahrenheit. From this 
ridge, which forms one of the amphitheatre of hills surrounding the 
plateau or erater-like basin of Milanji, a it idea of the mountain 
one of the two summit peaks ha aving been calculated at 9,300 feet above 
sea-level. Across the table-land, in the distance, is the somewhat 
isolated and precipitous Tshambi range, which, wit own smaller 
plateau, is sepa from Milanji table-land by the rocky valley and 
gorge e Likabula River. ‘To the front and to the hand, we 
have a continuation of the rolling and grassy hills which encircle the 
plateau, and which are capped with rugged cliffs of scarped granite and 
gneiss rocks. 
Altogether I spent two -— m the plateau changing to three 
different sites, each distant from 5 to 7 miles from the other, and this 
enabled me to decis more erc this new and interesting 
mountain count U nisetassdalyy the rains and mists set in before 
The flora of the mountain proved tó to be most interesting, the species 
met with beiog mostly distinct from those of the plain or even the 
lower slopes. But, under this heading, I must first attempt to 
short eo of the cypresses—the most striking botanical ape 
of the plate The remnant left of these fine conifers is confine a 
few of ihe up Me ravines and valle S the largest forest of them finding a 
pere secure habitat in the damp gorges of the Lutshenya 
valley. w old scorched see LS of the glen lead a Mahim 
past are doomed to speed seen a EM s deplorable to witness the 
and all but inaccessible teire is ud pisce, During the dry months 
me over the table-land and eats its way along the ed of the 
ing belts of forest, thus annually scorching, if not burning, the 

* Steps have been ta-en—H H.J. 
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