Chapter VII. 



consisted in his hehef that at this point in the Mobuku Valley 

 he was in the midst of the highest mountains of the chain 

 which he had already seen from the plain at the foot of the 

 Wimi Valley, and he still further increased the confusion by 

 attempting to identify them with those described and identified 

 by Stuhlmann from the western slope. 



It is not easy to make out Moore's ascent. Upon an 

 attentive perusal of his narrative, collated with H.Pt.H.'s 

 map, the reader is led to suppose that on reaching the head 

 of the Mobuku Valley he started to ascend to the left (that is 

 to say, on the right slope of the valley) until he reached the 

 glacier which he calls the central glacier, in other words the 

 Baker's Glacier of H.R.H.'s map,* by which glacier he would 

 reach the ridge at a point between Semper Peak and Grauer's 

 Piock. As a matter of fact, however, in order to reach the 

 Baker Glacier from the valley it would be necessary to climb 

 rocks and gullies presenting such exceptional difficulties as to 

 be surmountable only by a party of trained mountaineers — 

 certainly not by a single white man accompanied by native 

 porters. It is more probable that Moore began to climi) the 

 right slope of the valley at an earlier point. In this way 

 he would have reached the Edward Glacier and ascended it to 

 the southern ridge of the Edward Peak. 



Sir Harry Johnston attempted to reconstruct the chain as 

 seen from a hypothetical point to its east, basing his conception 

 upon the observations taken by preceding explorers. The 

 representation thus obtained l)y him is much further from 

 the truth than that of Stuhlmann and of Moore. From the 



* The glacier is clearly shown in one of Moore's illustrations (p. 246), and 

 also ill a plate of Sir Harry Johnston's, " The Uganda Protectorate," 2nd Ed., 

 London, 1904, Vol. I, p. 178. 



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