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blanket, and when I tugged it back he made such 
pitiful complaints about ''mbeho" (cold) and "ku 
komeka " (dying), that I could not deny him the use 
of it. 
In the middle of the night the mercury sank to 
23"", but at dawn it rose to 34°. The morning was 
extraordinarily clear. The snows, too, how near they 
appeared to be ! There seemed to be but one ridge 
between us and them, and to all appearance we 
should reach them in ten minutes. The sunrise that 
morning was a "flood of g^lory;" and what a scene 
lay outspread before us ! There was nothing to bound 
the view but our own weak powers of vision. East, 
west, and south, all lay before us ; the clouds, 
thousands of feet below us, extending in an illimit- 
able sea of snowy, convolving masses, or, to speak 
figuratively, like a multitudinous army, waiting in 
the still morning air till they should receive their 
marching orders, be marshalled by the winds, or 
dispersed to their quarters by the monarch of the 
day. Through the openings in the clouds peeps of 
the distant mountains and of the plains below were 
obtained. A little south of east was Bura ; farther 
south, in the misty distance, were the hills of 
Usambara ; nearer were Pare and Ugono ; and at 
the foot of the latter lay the lake Jipe, its whole 
outline being clearly defined. A little to the north of 
Jipe a column of smoke indicated the position of 
Taveta ; and north of that, within perpendicular cliffs, 
was a Httle blue sheet of water which I knew must be 
the lake of which I had heard such strange tales. 
Farther to the south were Kahe, Arusha wa Tini, 
the mount Sogonoi, and behind Sogonoi other 
