The Discovery of Ruwenzori. 



made five expeditions by various routes towards the siuinnits, 

 through the Yeria, Winii, Mobuku, and Nyamwamba Valleys on 

 the eastern slope, and througli the Butagu Valley on the western 

 .slope. He pushed his way up to the heads of the Yeria and 

 Winii Valleys, and reached his greatest altitude (13,000 feet) in 

 the Butagu Valley. 



Stricken with malarial fever, lacking means of transport, 

 Scott Elliot gave proof of admirable tenacity, but was unable 

 to gather any data regarding the region of the snows. His 

 most interesting observations are with regard to traces of 

 ancient glacier action in the valleys of Mol)uku, Nyamwamba, 

 and Butagu, which prove that they were at one period 

 filled by vast glaciers. Like Stuhlmann, he excludes all 

 possibility of a volcanic origin for these mountains. The most 

 important results of Scott Elliot's exploration are botanical. 



After Scott Elliot we have no further record of Euwenzori 

 for five years, although the period of exploration had been 

 succeeded in Uganda l)y tlie period of Euroj)ean occupation. 

 The whole time and tlie entire energies of the English military 

 and civil services were required to deal with serious difliculties, 

 and with the necessity of facing dangerous complications which 

 seemed at times to menace the very existence of the newly 

 established Protectorate. It was necessary to depose kings, and 

 to put down revolts with such means, slender and insufficient at 

 best, as were available from a coast several months' join^ney 

 distant. 



Thus we reach 1900 without anv further addition to our 

 knowledge of the range. In the spring of this year C. S. Moore, 

 at the head of a scientific expedition for the purpose of studying 

 the fauna of the great lakes, reached the eastern slopes of 

 Kuwenzori with tlie intention of attempting the asctnit. 



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