The Discovery of Ruwenzori. 



of the Moon" in the volcanic chain wliich stretches between 

 Lake Kivu and Lake Albert Edward, more especialh' in 

 the highest of the volcanic peaks, Mt. Nfumbiro ; hnt 



NATIVE HUT IN UGANDA. 



none of these inonntains are covered with snow. Stanley 

 had certainly far stronger grounds for liis opinion that the 

 "Mountains of tlie Moon" of Ptolemy are to lie identified 

 with Ruwenzori, which alone answers in all essential points to 

 the descriptions of the ancient geograpliers. It consists of a 

 vast mountain ranjre covered with everlastiny,' ice and snow and 

 shedding its waters into the basin of the Upper Nile from 

 all its slopes. Rising, as it does, out of the midst of a tropical 



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