From Fort Portal to Bujongolo—Mobuku Valley. 
seems primeval, of some period when forms were uncertain and 
provisory. The silence is profound, and the absence of any 
sign of life completes the image of a remote age before the 
beo-inniim of animal existence, such as might have been those 
forests which have given us the strata of coal fossils. 
Faint and indistinct tracks on the moss and the fallen 
trunks indicate the way. The travellers proceed, leaping and 
LOBELIAS IN THE HEATH FOREST. 
balancing themselves upon the slippery trunks, in continual 
danger of putting their foot in a deep hole and falling in the 
openings between the trunks, whence they would be likely to 
emerge with broken bones or other injuries. The Bakonjos. 
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