From Fort Portal to Bujongolo— Mobuku Valley. 
around was deep mild. Branches and tree trunks spread 
upon the ground formed a platform large enough to admit 
of two more tents. It took many hours’ hard labour in 
the mud and under the rain before the camp could be got 
ready. 
Such firewood as could be collected in the immediate 
neighbourhood was scarce, and the fires insufficient. The 
remaining Baganda porters, tired, discouraged, and shivering 
with cold were evidently incapable of proceeding any further. 
They were therefore all sent back with the boys to 
Butanuka, thence to join their comrades who had been 
dismissed from Bihunga and Nakitawa. Henceforward the 
expedition proceeded with the Bakonjo only, leaving a number 
of loads behind to he sent for later as required. 
The Kichuchu shelter stands upon a plateau which forms 
the first of a series of three terraces, all soaked with stagnant 
water and divided one from another by cliffs some 600 feet 
to 1,000 feet high. These three terraces form the upper 
Mobuku Valley. Above Kichuchu the way suddenly grows 
steep, and mounts by a narrow natural ledge in the rock of 
a spur about 900 feet high, belonging to the southernmost 
peak of the Portal group. 
At the narrowest and most difficult points of this rocky 
ledge the climb is facilitated by wooden steps. The path is 
so steep that you have to climb with hands and feet, clutching 
the few creeping plants and shrubs which grow within reach. 
The last bit is less steep, but is again a mass of mud, stones 
and roots. 
The summit is at last reached. This is the brow of the 
second plateau of the valley, and here one of the most singular 
sights seen in all the journey awaited the expedition. 
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