Chapter X. 
forest among huge trees, fine podocarpus, entwined with lianas 
and bamboo thickets. There were no more senecio nor lobelia. 
Troops of monkeys disported themselves in the branches, and 
the air was full of the song of birds. 
In the evening it began to rain for the first time after ten 
days of dry weather. It was the only considerable period of 
CRATER LAKE KAITABAROGA, NEAR FORT TORTAL. 
good weather that the expedition had met with among the 
mountains. 
On the following day they descended by a path which grew 
better and better, keeping upon the left bank of the stream. 
On reaching the bottom of the valley they turned southward, 
traversing the Bujuku and a small affluent, and made straight 
for the Mobuku where they found a rough bridge of bamboos. 
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