Scottish geographical magazine . d preserve the energyand vigour of their race, as they have for 350 years on the Equatorialhighlands of the Andes. Bogota and Quito are cities of about 100,000 1 It will be found interesting to compare these photographs with the illustrations givenof the vegetation of Ruwenzori in our March issue {cf. pp. 140, 141 and 142).—Ed. 350 SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE. inhabitants, and at this altitude (about 10,000 feet) the Spaniard ofto-day is as good a man as any who come from Spain—says the moderntraveller. The whole of the Kenia Alpine region is healthfu
Scottish geographical magazine . d preserve the energyand vigour of their race, as they have for 350 years on the Equatorialhighlands of the Andes. Bogota and Quito are cities of about 100,000 1 It will be found interesting to compare these photographs with the illustrations givenof the vegetation of Ruwenzori in our March issue {cf. pp. 140, 141 and 142).—Ed. 350 SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE. inhabitants, and at this altitude (about 10,000 feet) the Spaniard ofto-day is as good a man as any who come from Spain—says the moderntraveller. The whole of the Kenia Alpine region is healthful andinvigoiating, Init there is a great contrast, during at least half the year,between the wet and misty southern slopes of Kenia and the dry,bracing plateau country of northern Kenia. Messrs. Hutchins and Kosshad with them a third white man and some fifty natives; and, with theexception of a few cases of lung trouble among the coast natives, therewas no sickness, in spite of hardships which, in a less favouralile Fig. f. —The lowt-r forest zoue on Mt. Keuia. A tree-fern gorge. Avould have told immediately. Hail was experienced on numerousoccasions; in fact, on the wetter southern side of the mountain, therewas a severe hail-storm daily. A real snow-storm was experienced onone occasion only. Then the snow fell in light flakes exactly like asnow-storm in extra-tropical latitudes. This snow-storm lasted for somehours. For some miles around the glaciers also a light mantle of snowcovered the ground, but this rapidly melted under the infiuence of alittle sun and the warmer air which was experienced at higher altitudesduring the day. Kenia peak Avas bare of snoM- on the north-eastern side,presumably on account of the comparatively warm upper current. Theseweather notes have a peculiar value, since they were made at the wettest A VISIT TO MOUNT KENIA. 351 time of the year, April, May, and part of June. On Kenia, December,January and February is the dry season ; Marc
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