From the Congo to the Niger and the Nile : an account of The German Central African expedition of 1910-1911 . 194. Gorilla lair. In the background Stepke and Undene. >^. 195. Cola chlamydanlha. MARCHING FROM EBOLOWA 215 dry season, sprinkled us towards evening with a littlerain. Every now and then the tree-tops rustled,and a gust of wind drove a cloud down into the valley,wrapping us in a driving mist. It took me the whole morning to reach the summit,and, as the reward of my labours, the boiling pointapparatus indicated an altitude of but 2500 feet. Ireached the summit about noon, after an
From the Congo to the Niger and the Nile : an account of The German Central African expedition of 1910-1911 . 194. Gorilla lair. In the background Stepke and Undene. >^. 195. Cola chlamydanlha. MARCHING FROM EBOLOWA 215 dry season, sprinkled us towards evening with a littlerain. Every now and then the tree-tops rustled,and a gust of wind drove a cloud down into the valley,wrapping us in a driving mist. It took me the whole morning to reach the summit,and, as the reward of my labours, the boiling pointapparatus indicated an altitude of but 2500 feet. Ireached the summit about noon, after an exhaustingand dangerous climb, or rather scramble, and wasimmediately enveloped in a cloud cap as thick as aLondon fog, which presently turned to rain. Myhopes of a view were, of course, doomed to disappoint-ment. But even if the weather had been favourable,I should not have seen very much, for Undene had cutdown the trees towards the north and west, and inthis direction there was but little to be seen. I realised,however, that it would take days of tree-felling to enableme to obtain a comprehensive view, so I was contentwith what I saw from the top of the big tree
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