From Fort Portal to Bujongolo—Mobuku Valley. 
leave-taking was as sober and dignified as possible : each 
woman knelt before her husband, who placed one hand upon 
her bead. 
As has been said, Fort Portal is situated upon the heights 
which divide the basin of Lake Albert from that of Lake 
FORT PORTAL. 
Albert Edward. The latter is connected by a short, narrow 
watercourse with Lake Dueru or Iiuisamba, which lies in the 
hollow called “ Albertine Valley,” at the foot of the eastern slope 
of Ruwenzori, and receives all the waters which flow down 
from the chain on that side. To reach the Mobuku Valiev 
the path skirts the upper basin of Lake Iiuisamba without 
descending to the lake, running first along the hills which 
form the watershed, and then following the eastern foot of the 
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