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Title: A naturalist in Mid-Africa: being an account of a journey to the Mountains of the Moon and Tanganyika
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Elliot, G. F. Scott (George Francis Scott), 1862-1934
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: London A.D. Innes & Co.
Contributing Library: Field Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The Field Museum's Africa Council

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anziand the Wanyuema from across the river. In consequence of this, much of the best landis overgrown with interminable elephant grass,through which one has to burrow for hours. I at last found that I was approaching Karewia,a German camp, and when the supposed site wasshown me, decided on ascending the hills andforming a camp. The people were peculiarly shy,and I had great difficulty in finding any one toact as guide, but after some trouble, I found afairly good spot on the left bank of the Butaguriver. This was a most curious valley; theshape of it can be best understood by the drawingand the section (given on p. 175, chap. x.).Opposite me was a curious needle-like detachedpinnacle of rock, and far up the valley I used tosee at sunset the clouds gradually vanish awayfrom the sharp snowy peaks which Dr. FranzStuhlmann has christened after such well-knownpeople as Weissmann, Moebius, &c. I made a trial walk up the valley, and, afterpassing four or live precipitous ravines, I found
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o N W OO N OO M»—i O pq ww <MCM • i-H THE SALT LAKE AND SEMLIKI VALLEY. 137 myself near the head where there are twomagnificent waterfalls and a considerable culti-vated area. I returned on the other side by amuch better path, most of which was covered byforest, in which were tree heather and otherAlpine plants at a very low altitude. There is a curious difference in the level of theforest on the western side. So far as I couldjudge, for even here, in one of the most unget-at-able places in the world, the hand of man hasvery much altered the aspect of nature, the forestbegins at about 6,000 feet, but it does not seemto occupy more than from this level to 7,600 feet.At 8,000 feet the bamboos stop and one enterson the heather region. The reason of this canprobably be best explained as an effect of theextremely sudden rise of the mountain and themanner in which the ridges jut out from themain mass, so that there is a sheer precipitousascent to about 9,000 feet, from which long,na

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