Chapter V. 
another by a huge boulder. To pass from one of these groups 
to the other you had either to go round the boulder, under 
the perpetual drip of water which, even in fine weather, came 
off the edge of the overhanging rock, or else you must clamber 
between the boulder and the rocky wall, a feat requiring some 
acrobatic skill. Close to the tents, in a small space between 
three heath trees, were arranged the instruments which 
composed the small meteorological observatory. 
Bv no effort was it possible so to transform this inconvenient 
spot as to create an even tolerable camp, such as would have 
been desirable for a base station, where the expedition might 
spend a considerable time, and whither exploring parties might 
return from the high, mountains for rest and refreshment. 
Unfortunately, there seemed to be no place in the region which 
combined other attractions with a certain measure of shelter 
from the weather. 
The Iiiver Mobuku flows at the foot of Bujongolo more than 
600 feet below. The camp stood nearly at the entrance of a 
little tributary valley, which at this point opens out of the right 
flank of the Mobuku Valley. The latter is visible for a short 
tract only, not farther than the foot of Kiyanja, at which point 
it makes a sharp bend to the northward. Kiyanja has from 
this side the appearance of a high rocky wall ending in a sharp 
peak. To the left of this peak, at the top of the wall, lies a 
level glacier overhung by a rounded summit. To the right 
stretches a jagged ridge, at whose feet flows down into the 
valley another glacier, partly hidden by the corner formed on 
the left slope of the Mobuku Valley at the point where it turns- 
to the north. 
Opposite the camp, on the other side of the valley, a spur 
descends gradually down to the plain of Buamba. Beyond this- 
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