RUWENZORI AND ITS SNOWS 



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the spelling of this word could be reduced to Kuusori, it would correspond 

 more closely with one of the native designations. 



After my own experience in regard to this mountain I am no longer 

 surprised that explorers like Stanley in his first visit to these countries, 

 like Emin Pasha, Sir Samuel Baker, Gessi, and all others who visited 

 these regions prior to 1887, failed to discover in the Blue Mountains 



125. AUTHOR IN '• CI.IMBIXG '' COSTUME, CLOTHED TO RESIST COLD ON RUWENZORI 



south of Albert Nyanza what is probably the highest point of the African 

 continent, and what is certainly the greatest extent of snow and glaciatiou 

 in Africa at the present day. We were within sight of Euwenzori for three 

 months and a half during our investigations of the Western Province of the 

 Uganda Protectorate and of the adjoining regions of the Congo Free State, 

 and only six times did we see the snows, except, of course, that period of 

 a week spent more or less on the snow. And out of all these times when, 

 in the early morning or late evening, we caught siglit of the snow, we 



