Formation and (renerai Features of lUiAvenzori. 



it as it stai ids, even were it only out of respect to the great 

 ex})k)rer. After all, liad Stanley given tlie range a name 

 which had nothing to do with the native names, had he 

 called it, for example, '' Mountains of tlie Moon," or 

 " Mountains of Ptolemy," or '' Victoria Mountains," or any 

 similar name, all geographers would have accepted his choice 

 without discussion and without auy attempt to modify it. 



These hrief remarks upon the name of Iluwenzori will 

 suffice to indicate the impossibility of atteiupting to gather 

 local native names for eacli special mountain and peak of the 

 rango. So fir similar attempts have given as a result a 

 separate nomenclature for each explorer. It is extremely 

 probable that the natives never had individual, specific 

 names fir eacli peak, all the more so if we reflect that in 

 <uir own European Alps, many peaks received their name 

 <»nly after the advent of Alpine climbing. 



It was clearly indispensable to give to the Iluwenzori range 

 some soit of nomenclature, which is the only means of translating 

 into current language the topographical survey of a region. 



( )ut of natural courtesy towards those of his predecessors 



who had already christened some of the mountains, the 



Duke, after his return from Africa, interviewetl Sir Harrv 



Johnston and Dr. Stuhlmann upon this subject. An agreement 



was easy, because both of these great authorities shared the 



(•pinions of the Prince, who proposed to give to these mountains 



the names of travellers long associated with the history of Central 



African exploration, and contining to single peaks those names 



which Stuhlmann had given to whole portions of the range."'' 



^ Sir Harry Johnston had already suggested that the mountains should be 

 calletl liy the names of celebrated explorers in those cases where no pi'ecise and 

 specific native names wove foithcoming. {See " The Uganda Protectorate," 

 L'rnl VA., London, 1!I04, Vol. T, p. 1.j9.) 



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