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suspected its existence until one day the clouds parted 

 and unveiled its magnificieut white peaks. 



Dr. Fillippi, who wrote the account of the Duke of the 

 Abruzzi's expedition to Ruwenzori (1896), explains the 



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Lohtlia tjlhhtrod. 

 A lobelia giouiiil un Ruwenzori, 7,000 feet. (From a photogi-:i|jh 

 Ijv Dr. A. V. R. WoUaston, Journal of the Liitiiam iSocii'tij, 

 lijOS, xxxviii, PI. xvii, Fig. 3. 



persistent rainy season on this mountain range by the 

 fact that it rises like an island from the vast marshy 

 phiins of LTganda and the boundless forest of the Congo ; 

 it is a centre of attraction for the mass of vapour 

 sucked up by the tropical sun, condensing round the 



