Chapter IV. 
left-hand side of the valley. The Mobuku torrent roars more 
than 600 feet below in the deep and precipitous gorge where 
it has cut a channel through the detritus, while the blocks 
and pebbles of the moraine formation are quite plainly visible 
in section on the deeply cut sides. 
The trees now grew denser and denser until, on the top of 
the moraine, the path once more entered the forest. For 
some distance the way followed the crest of the moraine, in 
many places less than a yard wide, until it reached a gigantic 
boulder of gneiss about 30 feet long, and from 18 to 20 feet 
high, near which stood a little straw-roofed shed quite crooked 
and propped up by a few piles driven into the earth. This 
IBANDA. 
is the camp of Nakitawa. On every side stretched the 
forest of tall trees with the dense brushwood beneath. 
Hours of hard work were required to cut down enough 
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