The Discovery of l»uwenzori. 



()ii tlie ist of April, WollìLstoii, Woosiuini ;iii(l Cariaithers, 

 still pursued l)y bad weather, ascended the rocks Ijeside the 

 Mobuku Glacier and reached a rocky peak 15,893 feet high, 

 which rises to tlie north-east of the valley, and which they 

 l)elieved to be the Dnwoiii of Jolniston. 



Two davs later, the same party repeated the ascent of the 

 rocky knob on the ridge of Kiyanja, and the reading of the 

 boiling-point thermometer gave them this time a somewhat 

 higher altitude (1G,:37'J feet). 



The persistent l)ad weather which liampered tliem on all 

 these expeditions barely allowed them to perceive that other 

 peaks of the chain rose up towards the north-west, and that 

 they seemed higlier than those which they liad themselves 

 ascended. 



Before the departure of the Italian expedition, only 

 vague and inaccurate reports of these ascents had come 

 from Uganda. Nor had any precise and direct intelligence 

 been received from the members of the British Museum 

 Expedition. 



To ensure a clear imderstandino- of the facts, I have made 

 out a table of all the explorations of Buwenzori, which preceded 

 the expedition of H.li.H. the Duke of the Abruzzi. In this 

 table I have given the altitudes as reported by eacli writer. 

 They are to be taken as approximate only, because none 

 of them are drawn from a series of observations carried 

 out with tlie precautions and the corrections necessary to an 

 exact result. It is possible that, in addition to the expeditions 

 which I have recorded, others may have l)een made by English 

 residents in the protectorate. (3f any sucli I am ignorant, as 

 no account of them has been published. 



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