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mass which lay to 

 the south of his 

 newly discovered 

 lake, and he gave 

 it the nan^e of 

 the I^lue Moun- 

 tains. \\' h e n 

 Stanley reached 

 the vicinity of 

 the south-west 

 corner of the 

 Albert Nyanza in 

 1887, he got a 

 sight for the first 

 time of a snow- 

 peak, or indica- 

 tions of a snowy 

 ransfe of nioun- 

 tains, to the 

 south-east of this 

 position. Ques- 

 tion i n g the 

 Bant u-s})eaking 

 populations at 

 some time or otlier 

 when in the vi- 

 cinity of this new 

 discover}-, he be- 

 lieved the most 

 general native 

 name for it to be 

 Euwenzori. L'n- 

 fortunately, this 

 term is nowhere 

 recognised by the 

 n a t i \- e s . The 

 nearest approach 

 to it seems to be, 

 on Dr. St all 1- 

 mann's authority, 

 the Lukonjo word 

 Nsoro. This, with 



