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Society, says : ' Mr. Wollaston . . . informed me 

 of the existence of two snow-peaks higher than 

 Kiyanja, and north-west of it. He could not tell 

 me how these peaks were connected with Kiyanja, 

 confining himself to an opinion, which proved 

 erroneous, that they were situated west of the 

 watershed. This information contradicted that 

 which I had previously derived from Freshfield, 

 and left me uncertain as to how to reach the highest 

 peaks. Should we follow the Mubuku Valley, or 

 the Butagu Valley, on the Semliki side, which had 

 been taken by Stuhlmann ? If the highest peak 

 was, in fact, divided from Kiyanja by a deep valley, 

 and if the passes leading to it from the Mubuku 

 Valley were impracticable, how could we transport 

 our camp across the range ? In this case the better 

 course might be to take the Butagu Valley. But to 

 reach the latter we must make a circuit round the 

 southern flank of the chain. ... Of the two 

 alternatives, we chose that which involved the 

 shorter journey, to ascend the Mubuku, and de- 

 termine on the spot whether we must cross to the 

 Semliki side.' The opinion that I expressed was 

 not that the two high peaks were ' to the west of 

 the watershed ' — it was exceedingly improbable that 

 such high peaks should be away from the water- 

 shed — but that they stood on the west side of the 

 range, and sloped steeply down into the Semliki 

 Valley. They are, as a matter of fact, the most 

 western peaks in the range. I said further that if 



