Africa . no villages lay in their path, it was soon foundnecessary to cast about for provisions. After leavingMsuwah the land began to rise ; between the Makatariver and the Usagara hills it was level, and, with theexception of one or two swamps, perfectly thus describes the country on his route :— 4. Camerons Route to Ugogo. The track led now over the Usagara mountains, uphill and down dale, over slippery faces of quartz andgranite. In spite of their rocky character, however, theseheights are wooded to the tops, and chiefly with the hollows water gathers, and in
Africa . no villages lay in their path, it was soon foundnecessary to cast about for provisions. After leavingMsuwah the land began to rise ; between the Makatariver and the Usagara hills it was level, and, with theexception of one or two swamps, perfectly thus describes the country on his route :— 4. Camerons Route to Ugogo. The track led now over the Usagara mountains, uphill and down dale, over slippery faces of quartz andgranite. In spite of their rocky character, however, theseheights are wooded to the tops, and chiefly with the hollows water gathers, and in the vales themparamasi raises its majestic head. The mparamasi isone of the noblest specimens of arboreal beauty in theworld, having a towering shaft sometimes 15 feet indiameter and 140 feet high, with bark of a tenderyellowish green, crowned by a spreading head of darkfoliage. After the first ridge had been crossed hereached a pass through which the Mukondokwa rushes, and EQUATORIAL LAKE REGIONS. 311. HIPPOPOTAMUS-HUNTING. here the camp had to be placed on such a steep declivitythat it seemed like the side of a roof. Next day thestream was forded at a point where it was fifty yards wideand thigh-deep to reach the former village of Kadetamare,and thence the way was through luxuriant fields of mtamaand caffircom, the stalks of which were 15 to 18 feet inheight. Farther on the traveller passed along the rightbank of the Mukondokwa by a steep and dangerous rockypath, the least slip in which would have been followed bya plunge into the foaming river. The hills consist chieflyof granite, yet here and there masses of red sandstone areseen, forming a fine contrast to the dark green of thetrees, to the creepers and dull colouring of the weathered 312 COMPENDIUM OF GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL. granite. Twice more the river had to be crossed beforethe lake of Ugombo was reached, in which hippopotamiand waterfowl find a congenial home. In the two long-marches through Mpwapwa the country is w
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