The Discovery of Euwenzori. 
to only a very few, on rare occasions and from a great distance, 
actually to have sight of the whole chain. 
INCENSE TREE (?) 
Under these circumstances, the views of travellers as to the 
height of the principal peaks, the extension of the glaciers, and 
the general features of the range were widely divergent and 
based upon scanty foundations. These views were either 
derived from a fleeting vision of far-off mountains in great part 
hidden by lower buttresses of the chain, or else based upon 
knowledge of one single valley whose surrounding barrier of 
rid ges hid from sight all the greater and more important features 
of the range. 
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