Chapter I. 
the flora and fauna of the mountain district. Like. Scott Elliot, 
he noted traces of glacial action in the Mobuku Yalley, about 
3,000 feet below the point where is now the snout of the 
glacier. Like all his predecessors, he complains of an extra¬ 
ordinary persistence of bad weather. 
A CAMP. 
Thus in the year 1900 alone the Mobuku Valley had been 
explored by four separate parties. 
In August of the following year, W. H. Wylde and Ward 
went up the valley and appear to have reached the ridge on the 
top of the glacier at the same altitude which was reached by 
Moore, about 15,000 feet. During the two following years 
we have no further reports of the Mobuku Yalley until the 
expedition of the Rev. A. B. Fisher, who, with his wife, in 
January, 1903, arrived at the point which had been reached by 
Sir Harry Johnston. 
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