Chapter IV. 
positions below the rope to give greater security. The porters, 
with their loads, straggled across up-stream of the cord and 
holding by it. In this way the whole party was soon 
reassembled on the other bank of the Mobuku without 
accident and resumed their way, now ascending the wide level 
valley bottom as far as the camp of Ibanda. 
Ibanda (4,540 feet) stands upon the right bank of the 
Mobuku River at a point where the valley widens into a plain 
more than one mile wide, shut in by rounded hills and covered 
BETWEEN DUWONA AND ICASONGO. 
with deep grasses and a few scattered trees. A small tributary 
valley opens near the camp. Further up, the valley appears 
to be completely shut in by a high and steep peak which 
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