From Fort Portal to Bnjongolo—Mobuku Valley. 
brushwood and trees to make room for the seven tents. At 
the foot of the boulder the natives crowded around the kitchen 
place. This camp is 8,700 feet above the sea-level. In 
THE l’ORTAL PEAKS OX THE WAY UP TO BIIIUNGA. 
spite of occasional descents a rise of 2,400 feet had been 
accomplished in one march. During the whole afternoon the 
porters kept dropping in, one by one, tired out with the hard 
day’s journey. The Baganda are a people of the plains, and 
evidently incapable of enduring the fatigue of mountain 
marches. It had now become obviously necessary to replace them 
by Bakonjo, who are acclimatized to this valley and accustomed 
to climb its slopes in the chase after marmots and hvrax. 
Every slope in sight was covered by the forest. It was a 
scene of virgin and untouched Nature. The regions inhabited 
by man had been indeed left behind. 
