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Change of weather -- Kennedy has the fever -- The doctor's medicine -- Travels on land -- The basin of Imengé -- Mount Rubeho -- Six thousand feet elevation -- A halt in the daytime.
The night was calm. However, on Saturday morning, Kennedy, as he awoke, complained of lassitude and feverish chills. The weather was changing. The sky, covered with clouds, seemed to be laying in supplies for a fresh deluge. A gloomy region is that Zungomoro country, where it rains continually, excepting, perhaps, for a couple of weeks in the month of January.