The Disco\ery of Ruweuzori. 



( )ii the Ist of April, AVuUastDii. Wonsiiam and C'aniitliers, 

 still ])iir.sued by bad weather, ascended the rocks beside the 

 Mobuku Glacier and reached a rockv i)eak 15,898 feet high, 

 which rises to the north-east of the valley, and which they 

 believed to be the Dnwnni of .Ii>hnst()n. 



Two days later, the same party repeated the ascent of the 

 rocky knol) on the ridge of Kivanja, and the reading of the 

 boiling-])oint thermometer gave them this time a somewliat 

 higher altitude (16,379 feet). 



The Jjersistent bad weather which ]iam})ered them on all 

 these expeditions barely allo\\'pd them to perceive tliat other 

 peaks of the chain rose np towards the north-Avest, and that 

 they seemed higher than those which tliev had themselves 

 ascended. 



Before the departure of the Italian expedition, onlv 

 vague and inaccurate reports of these ascents had come 

 from Uganda. Nor had any precise and direct intelligence 

 been received from the mendjers of the British Museum 

 Expedition. 



To ensure a clear imderstanding of the facts. I have made 

 out a tal)le of all the explorations of Iluwenzori. whicli preceded 

 the expedition of H.R.H. the Duke of the Abruzzi. In this 

 table I have given the altitudes as reported by each writer. 

 They are to be taken as approximate only, becaiise none 

 of them are drawn from a series of observations caixied 

 out \\ith the precautions and tiie corrections necessary to an 

 exact result. It is possible that, in addition to the expeditions 

 which I have recoriled, others mriv have been made by English 

 residents in the protectorate. (.)f any such 1 am ignorant, as 

 no account of them has been published. 



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