Chapter IV. 
from the bamboos, from the heaths, from the tall ferns, 
and from all the leafage of the forest, a chilly drip fell 
ceaselessly upon the travellers. 
Bedaubed with mud from head to foot, their clothes 
TREE - FERNS. 
soaked in water, after crossing the valley as far as its left 
slope, the expedition reached the foot of a high overhanging 
cliff at the bottom of a short valley shut in by a moraine. 
This was the so-called Kichuchu Camp, at a height of 
9,833 feet above the sea-level, and 1,133 feet above Nakitawa. 
The rocky wall forms a shelter over a narrow strip, where 
you are indeed protected from the pouring rain, hut where 
the soil is soaked with the water which drips off the rock 
upon it. Here there was room for a single tent only. All 
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