The Discovery of Ruwenzori. 
made five expeditions by various routes towards the summits, 
through the Yeria, Wind, Mobuku, and Nyamwamba Valleys on 
the eastern slope, and through the Butagu Valley on the western 
slope. He pushed his way up to the heads of the Yeria and 
Wimi Valleys, and reached his greatest altitude (13,000 feet) in 
the Butagu Valley. 
Stricken with malarial fever, lacking means of transport, 
Scott Elliot gave proof of admirable tenacity, but was unable 
to gather any data regarding the region of the snows. His 
most interesting; observations are with regard to traces of 
ancient glacier action in the valleys of Mobuku, Nyamwamba, 
and Butagu, which prove that they were at one period 
filled by vast glaciers. Like Stuhlmann, he excludes all 
possibility of a volcanic origin for these mountains. The most 
important results of Scott Elliot’s exploration are botanical. 
After Scott Elliot we have no further record of Ruwenzori 
for five years, although the period of exploration had been 
succeeded in Uganda by the period of European occupation. 
The whole time and the entire energies of the English military 
and civil services were required to deal with serious difficulties, 
and with the necessity of facing dangerous complications which 
seemed at times to menace the very existence of the newly 
established Protectorate. It was necessary to depose kings, and 
to put down revolts with such means, slender and insufficient at 
best, as were available from a coast several months’ journey 
distant. 
Thus we reach 1900 without any further addition to our 
knowledge of the range. In the spring of this year C. S. Moore, 
at the head of a scientific expedition for the purpose of studying 
the fauna of the great lakes, reached the eastern slopes of 
Ruwenzori with the intention of attempting the ascent. 
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