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UUWENZORI AND ITS SNOWS 



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 which the continuous range of snow was 

 visible was too short for a sketcli of anv value or accuracy to be made. 



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

 armed with a camera, a pencil, and a notebook, with the exception perhaps 

 of Dr. Stuhlmann, who in his liook gives us a sketch of the distribution 

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

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



