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HUWENZORI AND ITS SXOWS 



only once saw without intervening cloud tlie whole snowy range. On this 

 occasion, unfortunately, the photographs taken came out with plenty of 

 foreground and practically no indication whatever of the snowy panorama 

 behind ; and the period during wliich tlie continuous range of snow was 

 visible was too short for a sketch of aiiv \alue or accuracv to be made. 



120. DKAr.ENA.S OX KUWEXZORf (6,000 FEETj 



The same fate appears to have attended all my predecessors who were 

 armed with a camera, a pencil, and a notebook, with the exception [)erhaps 

 of Dr. Stuhlmann, who in his book gives us a sketcli of the distribution 

 of snow on the western aspect of the mountain. Even tins sketch, however, 

 is not a complete record of the entire range of snow-peaks. For myself, 



