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(including the part within the crater), which terminates at the height 
of 17,900 feet. A great portion of the crater is filled with neve, 
assuming the form called in the Andes nieve penitente, from the fancied 
resemblance of the hardened masses left standing above the general 
level to the figures of kneeling penitents. The highest trace of 
humanity found upon the mountain was a hunter’s bivouac at 15,400 
feet. 
Dr. Meyer made three attempts at the Mawenzi peaks, reaching a 
height of 16,260 feet, though he did not attain the highest pinnacle. 
The broken and fantastic peaks of this group surpass description in 
their rugged magnificence, and are evidently the skeletal remains of a 
volcanic crater far older than that of Kibo. On the eastern flank one 
looks from a precipice of 6,500 feet to the country below. Our 
traveler believes that the former crest of Mawenzi stood southeast of 
the present highest point, and that its original height approximated 
that of Kibo. Numerous flowers and grasses ascend the sheltered 
slopes of Mawenzi to a height of 15,750 feet, and elk and antelope 
from the northern side come over the saddle to browse upon them. 
The slopes on the southern and eastern side from 6,500 to 9,750 feet 
are covered with primeval forest, which is continued as a narrow 
interrupted belt on the north side of Mawenzi, but vanishes altogether 
on that of Kibo. Below the forest, upon the southern slope of the 
entire mountain, extends the fertile and well-watered plain of Ohagga ; 
while to the north are waterless, ^ aid sloping plains, with grass 
and wild brush, inhabited by the Masa 
The mountain land of Uguene, to “which Dr. Meyer took a ten 
days’ trip after his ascent, is a gneiss range to the west of Lake Jipe. 
The inhabitants are known as Waguene. South of Uguene lies 
Usangi. 
Before leaving the neighborhood, Dr. Meyer made an excursion to 
Madjame, previously visited by Van der Decken. On his way he 
traversed the districts of Uru, Kindi, Kombe, and Maruma, and 
crossed two large rivers, one of them the Weri-Weri, which takes its 
origin from the foot of the glacier that escapes from the crater of 
Kibo. The Ngorube draws off all the water from the melting ice of 
the south side of the mountain, and flows to Pangani. Dr. Meyer 
falls into raptures about the magnificent aspect of the mountain from 
Madjame, with the typical volcanic curve exhibited by its 6,000 feet 
of ice-cap, and with the grand ravine of the Weri-Weri leading upward 
to the glacier. 
