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dated Karonga, the 16th July we which appears in the British Central 
Africa Gazette, of August 15th 
I have just returned from my sojourn of eighteen days on the 
highest range of the Deep Bay-Karonga mountains, and am pleased 
with the collections made. We all su ered from the cold, and had 
some bad cases of sickness; but, on the whole, the boys worked well, 
and I have got together a larger cotleotioi than ever I have made on 
any previous expedition. 
The flora of this range proved most interesting, resembling that 
of Mlanjs, yet differing from it, in many respects. I failed to find any 
trace of a conifer, but, on the other hand, the range s richer in heaths 
than Mlanje is. I fancy the three principal peaks of the range, to the 
tops of which I went, ríse to an alt itude of from 7 to 8C00 feet 
above sea level; and I thoroughly explored this portion of the range 
from end to end, and I could see close at hand the mountain I explored 
at the Mount Waller part of the range. I cannot quote figures exactly 
till I go thoroughly through my collections ; ; but, of plants, : have over 
rie toes of skins of kinds, 330; of mammals, 200; of 
reptiles, &c., in spirits, 120; of crustacex, &c., 250; land shelis, 5000 ; 
insects, 3000, and a menia of geological specimens. 
I was meh troubled with fever sores breaking out on me while on 
these high piateaux—if plateaux they can be called; but, luckily, I was 
able to keep my feet pretty free of them, so was "able to get through 
the walking necessary to explore the place well. I do not think this 
range of mountains will turn out so healthy as Zomba or Mlanje. 
There is a want of the soft balmy bracing breezes prevailing at Mlanje. 
The ordinary wind is a cutting south-easter from the lake, and which 
we found chilly and anything but bracing. Of course there are 
sheltered valleys which are pu enough, except when the wind is 
áriving over the mountain top 
I should have stayed a be days longer, but some suspicious natives 
made their appearance on the plateau, and, in one night, built a long 
boma, not two miles from my camp, No. 2. Hitherto Thad not secn a 
trace of man on the mountains, but saw smoke away down in the valley 
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Dr. Cross id I propose starting for a tour to-morrow round to 
the Tanganyika plateau, and returning through the Wankonde 
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trip, but I s eng no ee get ers sare certainly, The steamer is 
