82 UGANDA AND TEE EGYPTIAN SOUDAN.

With some difficulty I ascended Mount Eegiaf; it is a hard climb, but when once at the top the view well repays the trouble. The hill is about a mile from the station, and is 375 feet higher than the surrounding plain, and 2006 feet above sea-level.

MOUNT EEGIAP.

This height agrees with a number of observations taken by Dr. Emin Bey, but not with those of Baker, who makes the top of the mountain 4186 feet above sea-level, giving a remarkable difference of 2180 feet higher than my calculations.

Mount Eegiaf is called in the Bari language " Logwek," or earthquake, on account of the many