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[January 23, 1902 



The illustrations supplied to the work consist of photo- 

 jfraphs and drawings, the latter singularly vivid if 

 occasionally crude. Mr. Moore succeeds almost better 

 than any other .African traveller whom we know, able to 

 use pen and brush, in giving an idea of the wonderful 

 cloud effects to be seen in these African skies. We have 

 stigmatised his black .ind white drawings as crude — as 

 such they must appear to the ordinary European — yet 

 in extenuation of their hard light and shade must be 

 •quoted the undeniable fact that there is something about 

 the African atmosphere which gives these violent effects. 

 A vivid (and the reviewer is able to say a truthful) picture 

 is that facing p. 76 — "Storm-clouds, Mountains and 

 Bananas on the East Coast of Tang.inyika." 



Rift V'alley occurred through the uprising of the Mfum- 

 biro volcanoes, is probably correct. It is certainly 

 original. The lacustrine fauna of Kivu is apparently 

 similar to that of Albert Edward, and quite distinct from 

 the remarkable marine fauna of Tanganyika. 



With regard to Mr. Moore's attempted ascent of the 

 Ruwenzori range, furnished with guides by Mr. Bagge, 

 the Government official at Fort Portal (a place which Mr. 

 Moore persists in calling Fort Jerry;, he attacked the 

 mountain by the Mubuko \'alley. .\ccording to his own 

 account he probably reached a total altitude of 14,900 

 feet. .Sir Harry Johnston, who ascended the mountain 

 some months later, tells us that he, following the same 

 route, could get no higher than 14,800 feet. Subsequently 



Fig. j.— View of ihe small gLacier between the Northern Snow Ridge of Ingornwinibi .ind Kanyangogwi from the former, at a height of 13,600 feet. 



As regards the scientific results of Mr. Moore's 

 expedition— the point of view from which most readers of 

 N.\TUKK will be interested or uninterested in the book — 

 we are able to say very little, because Mr. Moore is 

 reserving his reports on his biological studies for 

 another volume. The chief matters of interest to scien- 

 tific students of Africa in the work under review 

 consist of the ascent of the still active volcano of 

 Kirunga cha gungu and a plucky attempt to ascend 

 one of the summits of the Ruwenzori range. Interesting 

 observations were also made on and around Lake Kivu ; 

 and Mr. Moore's opinion that this lake was probably 

 once connected with Albert Edward and the Nile system 

 rather than with Tanganyika and the Congo, but that 

 the severance between Kivu and the Nile in the Albertine 



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Mr. Wylde, of the Uganda Administration, also reached 

 a point which he describes as under 1 5,000 feet in 

 altitude. As Mr. Moore's and Mr. Wylde's observa- 

 tions were only taken by aneroid whereas Sir Harry 

 Johnston's was by boiling-point thermometer, it is 

 probable that all three explorers reached the same spot 

 in total altitude, all being stopped there by the same 

 obstacles of rocky precipices. Mr. Moore believes that 

 the spot he reached was on the actual ridge of Ruwenzori, 

 from which, theoretically, one might look down on the 

 Semliki V'alley or on Eastern Toro. Now from Sir 

 Harry Johnston's observations, as given in his lecture of 

 November 1 1 last, and his paper recently published in the 

 Geographical Society's magazine, it is clear that this 

 altitude of just under 15,000 feet is nowhere near, is 



