Chapter III. 
in numbers, while between the hillocks were open spaces of 
ground nearly barren save for a growth of reddish-yellow grass 
mingled with low ferns. The plantain groves diminished in 
extent and were in part replaced by sweet potatoes and beans. 
T1 le district was less thickly populated than that which preceded. 
The march was often heavy and fatiguing. The weather 
had changed for the worse, and frequent rainfalls made the 
track muddy and slippery. 
As the expedition drew nearer to the Lakes Albert and 
Albert Edward, their impatience to see the chain of liuwenzori 
NEAR BUTITI, WITH RUWENZORI IN THE BACKGROUND. 
grew acute, and from the moment when they entered the Toro' 
district their attention concentrated itself upon the western 
horizon, especially when the path led them over the top of some 
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