Photo by Vittorio Sella 



LAKE BUJUKA AND MOUNT STANLEY 



tl,^ «Sffl.^''?i"f ^'^ discovery of the Ruwenzori Mountains, Henry M. Stanley wrote that while looking to 

 wn.^T K ^f "^ "^ peculiar-shaped cloud of the most beautiful silver color. ^ Following its form down- 



hPtvvPPn 'Jfj^"^^^t''"ck with the deep blue black color of its base; then, as the sight descended to the gap 

 ,Wpnr i^Kf f""^ western plateaus, he became conscious that what he gazed upon was not the 



image or semblance of a vast mountain, but a real one covered with perpetual snow. 



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