The Discovery of Ruwenzori. 
more confirmed Stuhlmann’s description of the range, recognizing 
from the east side the same distribution of the peaks into four 
principal groups. 
Some three weeks later, Fergusson, who had left England 
with Moore but had been delayed by fever at Fort Gerry (now 
Fort Portal), proceeded up the Mobuku Valley and ascended 
the glacier to the height of 14,600 feet. 
Shortly after Fergusson, Bagge, who was employed in the 
Civil Service of the Toro district and had already made an 
excursion up the valley of the Nyamwamba as far as the bamboo 
zone, pushed up the Mobuku Valley and reached the glacier. 
Bagge had a rough path cut by the natives up the valley, 
which proved a useful guide to subsequent explorers. 
Sir Harry Johnston, High Commissioner of the Protectorate, 
accompanied by Messrs. Doggett and Vale, followed this 
track in September of the same year. His choice of this 
route was determined partly by the relative facility with which 
explorers since Moore seemed to have reached the glaciers, and 
partly by his conviction that the principal groups of the range 
were in the immediate neighbourhood of the head of the 
Mobuku Valley. Sir Harry Johnston’s expedition reached the 
glacier and ascended to a height of 14,828 feet, but was unable 
to reach the ridge. 
Johnston rebaptized the peaks under the names given them 
by the natives of those valleys, which were, of course, totally 
different from the names reported by Stuhlmann from the west 
of the chain. Thus, the Ngemwimbi, or Semper of Stuhlmann, 
became Kiyanja, while another peak visible from the Mobuku 
Valley received the name of Duwoni. Johnston succeeded in 
taking good photographs of the valley, of the Mobuku Glacier 
and of some peaks. He gave us also a detailed description of 
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