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superfluous, there being no enemies, animal or human, to be 

 guarded against here, but only the mysterious forms assumed 

 by the mist rising and sinking here and there like ghosts. 



This camping-place was at a height of about 9,390 feet, on a 

 grass-clad slope shaded by tree heaths some 66 feet high. In 

 addition to everlasting flowers, irises and amaryllises, there were 



SENECIO JOHNSTONII OLIO. 



numerous lobelia {Lobelia Deckenii), which grow from three and 

 a quarter to nine and a half feet high, but those we saw were 

 either over and dried up, or quite young specimens with stalk- 

 less rosettes of leaves squat on the ground. In the bed of the 

 brook hard by, in addition to quantities of brush, there were 

 several examples of the tree-like Senecio Johnstonii in full 



