Chapter I. 



in the interval made expeilitioiis up tlie <;-laciers at tlie head 

 of the valley. 



First Woosnain alone, tlien a ])artv consisting of Wollaston, 

 Woosnani and Dent reached, in Febinarv, of 1906, the spur 

 of rock (Ml the lidoe where Grauer, Maddox and Teiiart had 

 ffone in Jannarv. 



A few days later Wollaston and Woosnani attempted to 

 scale the peak Axhich rises above the western slopes of the 

 valley (the Kiyanja of Johnston), hnt owing to the dense fog 

 they were stopped on a knoh of the ridge at an altitude of 

 1G,125 feet, a little l)el()W the actual peak. 



A chief's daughters of bahima stock;. 



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