The Discovery of Ruwenzori. 
On the 1st of April, Wollaston, Woosnam and Carruthers, 
still pursued by bad weather, ascended the rocks beside the 
Mobuku Glacier and reached a rocky peak 15,893 feet high, 
which rises to the north-east of the valley, and which they 
believed to be the Duwoni of Johnston. 
Two days later, the same party repeated the ascent of the 
rocky knob on the ridge of Kiyanja, and the reading of the 
boiling-point thermometer gave them this time a somewhat 
higher altitude (16,379 feet). 
The persistent bad weather which hampered them on all 
these expeditions barely allowed them to perceive that other 
peaks of the chain rose up towards the north-west, and that 
they seemed higher than those which they had themselves 
ascended. 
Before the departure of the Italian expedition, only 
vague and inaccurate reports of these ascents had come 
from Uganda. Nor had any precise and direct intelligence 
been received from the members of the British Museum 
Expedition. 
To ensure a clear understanding- of the facts, 1 have made 
out a table of all the explorations of Ruwenzori, which preceded 
the expedition of H.R.H. the Duke of the Abruzzi. In this 
table I have given the altitudes as reported by each writer. 
They are to be taken as approximate only, because none 
of them are drawn from a series of observations carried 
out with the precautions and the corrections necessary to an 
exact result. It is possible that, in addition to the expeditions 
which I have recorded, others may have been made by English 
residents in the protectorate. Of any such I am ignorant, as 
no account of them has been published. 
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