The Discovery of Ruwenzori. 



of Riiwenzorl was reserved neither for liim, nor for Emin Pasha, 

 or Mason, both of ^Yhom subsequently visited the lake. 



TUSKS CONFISCATED BY THE GOVERNMENT, UGANDA. 



Stanley is probably riglit in attributing the extraordinary 

 lack of atmospheric transparency, which renders these moun- 

 tains invisil)le even in fair weather, to vapours exhaled 

 from the surrounding plains and exposed to the heat of the 

 tropical sun. Occasionally a breeze sweeps away these vapours. 

 At such times, as if by magic, the snow-clad ranges loom into 

 sight only to vanish again and leave the onlooker in doubt and 

 uncertainty as to the actual reality of the magnificent vision 

 vouchsafed to him. 



The discovery of this vast system of snow mountains 

 sheddino" their waters into lakes, whence one of the p'reatest 

 Nile branches takes its origin, finallv brouo^bt to an end that 

 quest after the soiu'ces of the classic river which had played 

 so large a part in the liistory of geographical investigation. 



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