Chapter VII. 



" enclosed in a circjue of cliflfe capped by glaciers, which flow 

 from a iidve rising in comparatively gentle slopes to an icy 

 ridge connecting two rock peaks, Kiyanja and Johnston's 

 Duwoni." * 



Mr. Freshfield's poor opinion of the glaciers and of the 

 general importance of the chain is a natural result of his belief 

 that " the only glacier basin of any size east of the chain is that 

 of Mobuku."t 



It now remains for us to consider the ascents performed by 

 the members of the British Museum Expedition, and more 

 especially by tlie mountaineer, A. F. WoUaston. Lake Bujuku 

 seems to have been seen for the first time by Woosnam in the 

 excursion which he made alone to the ridge overhanging the 

 Mobuku Glacier. Mr. Woosnam, as well as Mr. Wollaston, 

 believed, however, with Dr. Grauer, that this was the water- 

 shed. Hence Mr. Wollaston naturally concluded tliat the 

 mountains which he had caught a glimpse of beyond it, 

 Mt. Stanley and Mt. Speke, were on the western slopes 

 of the chain. It was only later, after meeting H.R.H. at 

 Fort Portal, that Mr. Wollaston, while crossing the foot of the 

 Mobuku Valley, and seeing the outline of the peaks to the 

 west, finally understood that their eastern slopes do i-eally 

 form part of the Uganda side of the I'ange. 



I must here mention the interesting article of Lieutenant 

 T. T. Behrens.J who has attempted to reconstruct the chain of 

 Ruwenzori witli the whole illustrative and descriptive material 

 from Stanley to Wollaston which existed in July, 1906, 

 including the observations taken by the author during nine 



* D. W. Freshfield, in "Alpine Journal," August, 1906, p. 183. 

 t D. W. Freshfield, in "Alpine Journal," August, 1906, p. 201. 

 I Lieutenant T. T. Behrens, ' The Snow Peaks of Kuwenzori,' " The 

 Geographical Journal," July, 1906, Vol. XXVIll, p. 43. 



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