Ten years in Equatoria; . e of small it, to the south, rises Mount Kitana, its steep sides cutinto large and successive terraces, difficult to ascend. The coast isformed of undulations of varying height, with woods between the * This information is partially taken from Notizie sulle provincie Egizianedel Sudan, Mar Rosso ed Equatore, del Corpo di Stato Magpfiore. Roma, 1885. THE ALBERT LAKE. 321 water and the hills, the average distance between the lakes andthe heights being about a mile. The uniformity and continuity of this configuration are brokenhere and there by great roc
Ten years in Equatoria; . e of small it, to the south, rises Mount Kitana, its steep sides cutinto large and successive terraces, difficult to ascend. The coast isformed of undulations of varying height, with woods between the * This information is partially taken from Notizie sulle provincie Egizianedel Sudan, Mar Rosso ed Equatore, del Corpo di Stato Magpfiore. Roma, 1885. THE ALBERT LAKE. 321 water and the hills, the average distance between the lakes andthe heights being about a mile. The uniformity and continuity of this configuration are brokenhere and there by great rocks, covered by cuphorhia, wild datepahns, and the beautiful Howers of the yellow stramonium (DafiLrahumilis). At three hours journey from Kibiro the Kiriangobi forestappears on the ridge of the sloping mountains, and casts its darkshadow along the shore, its gigantic trees broken here and thereby the silvery falls of the river Ngussi, and of several minor land then slopes gradually to the Muenghe territory. At. I-ANnsCAlE XEAU THE ALBERT LAKE. Kieya the aspect of the lake is that of a marsh, covered with agrowth of papyri and ambatsh, Avhich becomes thicker towards thesouth. The western side of the lake is almost everywhere bordered by acontinuous range of mountains, rising like a wall, and shelteringthe waves from the north-westerly winds. This line of heightsproceeds tortuously, and forms plains of various size between thefoot of its hills and the waters of the lake. The force of the water(not so strong perhaps on this bank as on the other) and the greatnumber of rivulets, together with the action of the rainfalls whichcarry down the detritus, cause a perceptible progress in the exten-sion of the western shore, and a consequent advance of the waterson the opposite bank. The thick Tunguru wood, with its highand leafy trees, screens from the winds of the north-east the 3 2 2 TEN YEARS IN E Q UA TORI A. village of the same name built on the borders of the lake, in th
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