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THE KILIMA-NJAR 0 EXPEDITION. 
CHAPTER VI. 
MY FIRST SETTLEMENT ON KILIMA-NJARO. 
Very early in the morning of the succeeding day— 
the second after onr arrival in Mosi—I began to 
prepare for the last stage of my journey, the search 
for a suitable site on which to establish my principal 
and central collecting-station. Various considerations 
must influence me in my selection. Firstly, it must 
not be too low down on the mountain, so as to be in¬ 
conveniently far from my collecting-grounds; secondly, 
it must not be too high up or my men would suffer 
unduly from cold, and we should induce no natives to 
bring their food supplies for sale. Again, I did not 
wish to build too near Mandara’s court in case that 
monarch should honour us with an inconvenient 
amount of his society, and always have me at his beck 
and call; on the other hand, if I journeyed too far 
into the wilderness I lost the protection Mandara was 
able to accord me and would, consequently, nullify the 
object of my settlement in Mosi, which was to be 
enabled to pursue my avocations quietly and econo¬ 
mically by living with a very few followers under the 
aegis of a powerful prince. 
I, therefore, after long consultation of the imperfect 
map, decided that a certain prominent spur of the 
mountain in the north-east of Mandara’s country 
