Chapter I. 
He had purposed to go up by the Nyamwamba Valley, 
which, however, be failed to reach owing to the impossibility of 
fording the River Mobuku, at that time swollen by heavy rains, 
and quite impassable. 
PORTERS’ HUT, UGANDA. 
As early as 1894 Captain (now General Sir Frederick) 
Lugard had pointed out to Scott Elliot the Mobuku Valley as 
the best route by which to reach the snow. C. S. Moore now 
started up by this route, taking with him a small number of 
Suahili porters besides a few natives of the valley. In spite of 
unfavourable weather, he was able to ascend the valley as far as 
its head, and discovered for the first time the glaciers which 
encircle its upper end. He went up one of these and reached 
the edge of the terminal ridge, 14,900 feet above sea-level. 
C. S. Moore thus gave us the first irrefutable proof of the 
existence of genuine glaciers upon Ruwenzori. He further- 
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