The Discovery of Ruwenzori. 



of the Moon " in the volcanic cliain Avhich stretches between 

 Luke Kivu and Lake Albert Edward, more especially in 

 the hio-hest of the volcanic peaks, Mt. Nfumbiro ; but 



NATIVE HUT IX UGANDA. 



none of these mountains are covered with snow. Stanley 

 bad certainly far stronger grounds for his opinion that the 

 " Mountains of the Moon " of Ptolemy are to be identified 

 with Ruwenzori, which alone answers in all essential points to 

 the descriptions of the ancient geographers. It consists of a 

 vast mountain range covered with everlasting ice and snow and 

 shedding its waters into the ])asin of the Upper Nile from 

 all its slopes. Rising, as it does, o\it of the midst of a tropical 



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