Chapter I. 



till' Hora anil fauna of tlir nioimtaiu district. Like Scott Elliot, 

 he noted traces of glacial action in the Mobuku Valley, about 

 3,000 feet below the point where is now the snout of the 

 glacier. Like all his predecessors, he complains of an extra- 

 ordinary persistence of l)a(l weather. 



A C.VMP. 



Thus in the year 1900 alone the Molniku Valley had been 

 explored by four separate parties. 



Li August of the following year, W. H. Wylde and Ward 

 went up the valley and appear to have reached the ridge on the 

 top of the glacier at the same altitude which was reached by 

 Moore, about 15,000 feet. During the two following years 

 we have no further reports of the Mobxiku Valley until the 

 expedition of the Rev. A. B. Fisher, who, with liis wife, in 

 January, 1903, arrived at the point wliich had been reached by 

 Sir Harry Johnston. 



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