Chapter I. 



He had pTirposed to go up l)y the Nyamwamba Valley, 

 which, however, he failed to reach owing to the impossibility of 

 fording the River Mobiikii, at that time swollen by heavy rains 

 and quite impassable. 



rORTEItS HUT, UGANDA. 



As early as 1894 Captain (now General Sir Frederick) 

 Liigard had pointed out to Scott Elliot the Mobuku Valley as 

 tlie best route bv ^^■llicll to reach the snow. C. S. Moore now 

 started up by tliis route, taking with him a small number of 

 Sualiih porters l)esides a few natives of the valle v. In spite of 

 unfavourable weather, he was able to ascend tlie valley as far as 

 its head, and discovered for the first time the glaciei-s which 

 encircle its upper end. He went up one of these and reached 

 tlie edge of the teniiiiinl I'idge, 14,900 feet al)()ve sea-level. 



C. S. Moore thus gave us the first irrefutahle pioof of the 

 existence of n'tMiuine n'lariers upon lluweiizoi'i. lb' further- 



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