From Fort Portal to Bujongolo—Mobuku Valley. 
The ground was carpeted with a deep layer of lycopodium 
and springy moss, and thickly dotted with big clumps of the 
papery flowers, pink, yellow, and silver white of the helichrysum 
or everlasting, above which rose the tall columnar stalks of the 
lobelia, like funereal torches, beside huge branching groups of 
the monster senecio. The impression produced was beyond 
THE HEATH FOREST. 
words to describe; the spectacle was too weird, too improbable, 
too unlike all familiar images, and upon the whole brooded the 
same grave deathly silence. 
Here and there, where the face of the cliff was so steep and 
smooth that no other plant could take root, were great golden 
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