44 PYGMIES AND PAPUANS 



streaks of pure white rock. This precipice, of which 

 more will be said later, grew smaller towards the West 

 until it ended at the deep vaUey, which divides the 

 Snow Mountains from the range of the Charles Louis 

 Mountains. 



In the opposite direction towards the East the range 

 rises gradually, until at a point about North-east from 

 the Mimika three snow-capped tops are seen. I use 

 the word " top" advisedly, for these three points are not 

 peaks but are elevations on an otherwise fairly even 

 mountain outline. The vertical extent of the snow 

 is not very great, a few hundred feet at the most, the 

 South face of the mountain being so steep that snow 

 cannot lie on it save on the horizontal terraces of the 

 strata, which could plainly be distinguished. Con- 

 tinuing the ridge East from the three snow tops (Mount 

 Idenburg) is a long plain of almost level snow about 

 three miles long. From the East end of the snow 

 plain a ridge of shattered rock, looking like Dolomite 

 towers from that great distance, forms a connection 

 with Mount Carstensz, the highest point of the range. 



Seen from afar, Mount Carstensz appears to be of 

 a different formation from the rest of the range. Mr. 

 Dumas of the Dutch Expedition to the Utakwa River 

 clearly identified masses of slate on the Southern face 

 from a distance of twenty miles, and this would quite 

 account for its different appearance. There are two 

 principal tops, a Western black and irregular rock with 

 scattered patches of snow, and an Eastern top more 

 even in its outline and entirely covered with snow. 

 Between the two a glacier of moderate size flows down 



