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In the Heart of Africa 
thence with small loads and more carriers one can get on to 
the long ridge by a very gradual ascent, apart from the one 
awkward place mentioned, and on up to Ulimbi, although it 
certainly would mean a very strenuous day. Then one should 
not, as Stuhlmann proposes, descend to the lake, but make a 
detour of the deep breach to the north, arriving in due course 
at the snows of Mount Stanley. The great advantage of this 
route would lie particularly in the fact that, before the actual 
Alpine ascent, there would be no climbing and clambering of 
much account, and that in clear weather the way could be seen 
far ahead and the whole surroundings overlooked. Yivat 
sequens! 
“ Shortly after two o’clock I started on the return journey, 
and was back in camp soon after sunset. My inspired descrip¬ 
tion resulted in Schubotz ascending Ulimbi on the next day. 
He was successful, too, in obtaining a few photographs. In the 
meanwhile I busied myself with the collections and completed 
them in the forest in the vicinity of the camp. 
“ This forest is not equal in beauty to the Rugege, and it 
lacks such immense tree giants as the podocarpus and ‘mutoie,’ 
found in the Bugoie district. Bamboo stocks of Arundinaria 
alpina are interspersed with foliates. The principal trees are: 
Dombeya leucoderma K. Sc hum. y Sideroxylon Adolfi Fnederici 
Engl.y Olea chrysophylla Lam.y and Olea Hochstetteri Bak.y 
MystroxyUim aethiopicum {Thunbg.) Loes.y Pygeum africanum 
Hook, f.y Allophylus abyssinicus (Hochst.) Radik.y Alanginum 
begoniifolium {Roxb.')y Harms, y Pittosporum fragrantissimum 
Engl.y Rhamnus prinoides HHerit.y Maesa Mildbraedii Gilg.y 
Persama spec. The Macaranga kilimandscharica and Polys das 
polybotrya, so frequent in the Rugege and Bugoie forests, I only 
found in the rather denser forest ranges. 
“ On the day following Schubotz’s ascent we marched back 
through the Butagu valley, and on to Beni. Schubotz had 
originally intended to proceed along the foot of Ruwenzori like 
the Duke and Wiese, but abandoned the intention on receiving 
a letter from Wiese informing him that the road was so bad that 
