Chapter IV. 
fact that the double peak seen from Kaibo and Butiti as in 
the centre of the chain and appearing to be the highest of all, 
is not the Duwoni of Johnston. 
FORD OF WIMI RIVER. 
Leaving the camp of Ibanda the march followed rapidly 
across the high plain, which was swampy here and there, with 
groves of tall acacia and dracaena and dotted with round smooth 
boulders. Soon they reached the foot of another buttress, a spur 
of the right-hand slope of the valley. Here the path became so 
steep at some points that even those who had no load to carry 
got out of breath. The natives, who during the first part of 
the stage kept up their usual cheerful hubbub, now became 
silent as they panted up the wearisome ascent, and scattered 
far and wide, covering a long reach of the way. 
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