The Discovery of Iiinvenzori. 



made five expeditions bv various routes towards the summits, 

 through the Yeria, Wimi, Mobuku, and Xyamwamba Valleys on 

 the eastern slope, and through the Butagu Valley on tlie western 

 slope. He pushed liis way up to the lieads of the Yeria and 

 Wimi Valleys, and reached his greatest altitude (13,000 feet) in 

 the Butao-u Vallev. 



Stricken with malarial fever, lacking means of transport, 

 Scott Elliot gave proof of admirable tenacity, but was unaltle 

 to gather any data regarding the region of the snows. His 

 most interesting observations are with regard to traces of 

 ancient o-lacier action in tlie valleys of Mobuku, Nvamwamba, 

 and Butagu, which prove tliat tliey were at one period 

 filled by vast glaciers. Like Stuhlmann, he excludes all 

 possibilitv of a volcanic origin for these mountains. The most 

 important results of Scott Elliot's exploration are botanical. 



After Scott Elliot we have no finther record of Ruwenznri 

 for five years, although the period of exploration had been 

 succeeded in Uganda by the period of European occupation. 

 The whole time and tlie entire energies of the English military 

 and civil services were required to deal \\ith serious difficulties, 

 and with the necessity of facing dangerous complications which 

 seemed at times to menace the very existence of the newly 

 established Protectorate. It was necessary to depose kings, and 

 to i)ut down revolts with such means, slender and insufficient at 

 best, as were available from a coast several months' journey 

 distant. 



Thus we reach 1900 without any furtlier addition to o\u' 

 knowledo-e of the rano-e. In the spring of this vear C S. Moore, 

 at the head of a scientific expedition for the purpose of studying 

 the fauna of the great lakes, reached the eastern slopes of 

 Ruwenzori with the intention of attempting the ascent. 



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