The Discovery of Ruwenzori. 



taken sucli measures for carrying it into eftect, as collecting' 

 material and preparing details of equipment, tlie range was 

 already being attacked by determined mountain climl^ers ))ent 

 upon rending the veil of nivsterv whicli liad so long shrouded 

 its secret. 



In Novemljer, I'JOo, for tlie first time in the history of 

 Kuwenzori, a party of expert mountaineers, Douglas W. 

 Freshfield and A. L. Mumm with the guide Moritz Inderbinnen 

 of Zermatt, arrived in tlie Mobuku Valley. They found the 

 season especially unfavom-ai)le. After waiting for a long time 

 at the upper end of the valley they were forced, l)y iminter- 

 ru])ted rains, to abandon the undertaking. Thev had succeeded 

 in making one attempt, in the course of whicli Mumm had 

 ascended the glacier, but without reaching the ridge. 



In January, 1906, the Rev. A. B. Fisher, with his courageous 

 wife, went up the Mobuku Glacier for the second time. In 

 the same year an Austrian mountaineer, R. Grauer, with two 

 English missionaries, H. E. Maddo.x and the Rev. H. W. Tegart, 

 who during tlie preceding year had attained to an altitude 

 of 14,000 feet on the Mobuku Glacier, climbed the high 

 terminal ridge of the \allpv which had not been readied since 

 1!)()1. Thev ascended to the summit of a small rockv |)eak whicli 

 rises on a depression m tlie I'idge to a height of 15,000 feet 

 above tlie sea. This peak Grauer named after King Edward. 



Finally, in ( )ctobtn-, U)()5, a scientific expedition, sent out 

 by the British Museum to study the fauna and flora ot 

 Ruwenzori, started from London under the direction of 

 H. B. Woosnam. The other members of this expedition were 

 G. Legge, R. E. Dent, M. Carruthers and A. F. R. Wollaston, 

 a member of tlie Aljiine (Jlub. This expedition spent several 

 weeks in the Mohiiku Valley to collect scientific material, and 



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