. Discovery of Lakes Rudolf and Stefanie : a narrative of Count Samuel Talaki's exploring. THROUGH THE BAMBOO THICKET ' The next morning our path led through more bamboo thickets and it poured with rain all the time. The higher we got the thicker grew the stems, and the more arduous was the work of forcing a passage. Not until the last hour did little clear- ings here and there facilitate our progress. At the beginning of this tramp we had to cross a stream more than 18 feet wide, and towards noon we came to another little brook and camped by it for the night. We were now at an altitude of abo
. Discovery of Lakes Rudolf and Stefanie : a narrative of Count Samuel Talaki's exploring. THROUGH THE BAMBOO THICKET ' The next morning our path led through more bamboo thickets and it poured with rain all the time. The higher we got the thicker grew the stems, and the more arduous was the work of forcing a passage. Not until the last hour did little clear- ings here and there facilitate our progress. At the beginning of this tramp we had to cross a stream more than 18 feet wide, and towards noon we came to another little brook and camped by it for the night. We were now at an altitude of about 10,000 feet at the upper edge of the belt of bamboo, beyond which various trees appear, chiefly of the coniferous va- riety frequently met with on Kilimanjaro, with willow-like but stiff foliage. We did not again notice bamboos and trees growing together. The fog and rain had thus far made it quite impossible to take our bearings, and I had to depend entirely on my compass. ' On the 20th the ascent became noticeably steeper. At a height of about 10,170 feet we left the bamboo thicket behind ; at 10,500 feet trees became much less numerous, and beyond that only a few isolated specimens occurred. A kind of swamp grass growing in little clumps, various Lobeliaceas, one of. BAMBOO THICKET ON Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Höhnel, Ludwig, Ritter von. London : Longmans, Green & Co
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