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TEE KILIMA-NJAP 0 EXPEDITION. 
tlian the eastern, and the snow extends to lower 
levels. 
Doubtless the perpetually melting snow is the cause 
of the many streams which issue from the sides and 
base of Kilima-njaro. Nevertheless, it is curious, 
considering that the snow-clad peaks slope to all the 
quarters of the compass, that the streams flowing from 
the mountain should be principally confined to its 
southern aspect. From the north of Kilima-njaro not 
a stream descends, although some thirty miles from 
its summits, in the plains of Ngiri, there is an extensive 
marsh, sometimes, in the rainy season, almost becom¬ 
ing a lake. To the west of the mountain, one 
stream, the Engare Nairobi (cold water), flows to an 
unknown bourn, possibly ending in the great salt 
tnarsh or swamp of Engaruka. On the eastern ver- 
,sant, start the various rivulets of Useri, Kimangelia, 
and others which go to form the Tzavo, a river enter¬ 
ing the Indian Ocean at Malindi. The River Lumi, 
flowing through Taveita and into Lake Jipe, also rises 
on the eastern side of Kilima-njaro; but none of these 
streams, already mentioned, start from the higher 
levels of the mountain. They either issue at once, or 
only well forth in full volume at its base. Thus the 
Lumi is generally represented as rising some distance 
up the mountain in the country of Rombo. In a 
measure this is correct, for the dry bed of the stream 
is there, and this occasionally in the wet season is 
filled by a torrent, but at most times it does not show 
a drop of water, and it is only when one has quite 
descended the mountain and reached a level of 2000 
odd feet—the level of the surrounding plain—that the 
Lumi suddenly issues full-grown from its dry bed. 
A mile from where it first appears in a series of 
