A MOUNTAIN CLIMB. 67 places where one finds quartz in small pieces. The higher one climbs, the scantier becomes the vegetation, until upon the summit itself, which I reached after three-quarters of an hour's climb, there are only four or five stunted trees amidst blocks of rock and the grey mushroom-like structures of termites. The readings of the aneroid and thermometer (October 9, 1877) were as follows :—8h. oom. A.M., camp, 25.79 in., 68.9° Fahr. ; 8h. 49m. A.M. summit, 25.26 in., 104° Fahr. (The thermo--- meter was not properly shaded from the sun.) This gives the height of the mountain, roughly calculated and without any corrections, as 4500 feet, which agrees fairly with the altitudes previously observed in Unyoro by Speke and Baker.

The country spread out before me was a highland sloping to the south, and more gently to the west, upon which rise isolated dome-shaped hills and even short ridges. It looks asif a continuous plateau had existed there in a past age, from which enormous floods had washed away the softer rocks, thus giving rise to the existing hills. The parallel arrangement of these hills on either side of the road, aids one’s fancy in tracing the ancient beds along which the denuding waters took their course, and of which the existing khors are but feeble phantoms. One single table mountain is visible from here, but unfortunately I was not able to ascend it. Moreover, the mountains to the west of the lake, which are not visible owing to intervening heights, are far higher than the one I climbed, and Jebel Mezeja Mkuru (“the Great Lord”) is also much higher. There is said to be a plateau upon it to which the inhabitants retire when they are attacked. I was also told of an unfathomable circular lake and of remarkable caverns far away to the south-east. I may add that, with respect to its geological structure, I have never seen so monotonous a country as Unyoro.

Two Zanzibar merchants arrived here from Karagwa without touching Uganda; both were freed slaves who wished to buy ivory by order of their masters; it is abundant and pretty cheap. They offered in exchange cloth, guns, powder, percussion-caps, copper, brass, &c. Near midday, on the 1oth of October, a company of Wagdanda also arrived in order to trade. Their chief, Mbazi, an old acquaintance of mine, sought