The Discovery of Ruweiizori. 



more confirmed Stiililniauu's clescrlption of the range, recognizing 

 from the east side the same distribntion of the peaks Into four 

 principal groups. 



Some tiiree weeks kiter, Fergussou, who had left England 

 with Moore but had been delayed by fever at Fort Gerry (now 

 Fort Portal), proceeded up the Mobuku Valley and ascended 

 the a:lacler to the heio-ht of 14,600 feet. 



Shortlv after Fergusson, Bagge, who was employed in the 

 Civil Service of the Toro district and had already made an 

 excursion u|) the valley of the Nyamwamba as far as the bamboo 

 zone, pushed up the Mol)nku Valley and reached the glacier. 

 Bagge had a rough path cut by the natives up the valley, 

 wliich proved a useful guide to subsequent explorers. 



Sir Harry Johnston, High Commissioner of the Protectorate, 

 accompanied by Me.ssrs. Doggett and Vale, followed this 

 track in September of the same year. His choice of this 

 route was determined partly by the relative facility with which 

 explorers since Moore seemed to liave reached the glaciers, and 

 partly by his conviction tliat tlie principal groups of the range 

 were in the immediate neighbnurliood of tlie head of the 

 Mobuku Valley. Sir Harry Johnston's expedition reached the 

 glacier and ascended to a height of 14,828 feet, but was luiable 

 to reach the ridge. 



Johnston rebaptized the peaks under the names given them 

 by the natives of those valleys, which were, of course, totally 

 different from the names reported by Stuhlmann from the west 

 of the chain. Thus, the Ngemwindji, or Semper of Stuhlmann, 

 became Kiyanja, while another peak visible from the Molniku 

 Valley received the name of Duwoni. Johnston succeeded in 

 taking good photographs of the valley, of the Mobuku Glacier 

 and of some peaks. He gave us also a detailed description of 



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