The bowl is two or three miles long and as much wide, with tall grass growing on the small hills inside and thousands upon thousands of curious cactus-like trees.

Several mountain streams tumble down from the gorges between the peaks and, uniting, flow out of the big gap in one stream, the river Turkwel, which separates Uganda from British East Africa.
[Drawing: _In the Crater of Mount Elgon_] Mount Elgon is not an imposing mountain and on most occasions there is no snow on its peaks.

Only one time during the several weeks that we were in sight of it was its summit capped with snow.

A few species of small animals live in the crater, but no human beings.

At night ice formed in the little pools where we camped and a furious wind, biting cold, swept down from the peaks and eddied out of the great gap where the Turkwel flows.
To all of our _safari_ it was a welcome hour when we struck camp, preparatory to leaving the crater for the lower levels.