Formation and General Features of Huwenzori. 
plain, and to go further from the mountains to seek for a ford 
across the Fiver Wirni, which was swollen, he was able to 
see the entire chain, not only the single mountains. This 
view is reproduced in a plate in colours placed opposite 
the frontispiece of his book.* This plate contains in the 
middle, and plainly recognizable, Mt. Stanley and Mt. Speke. 
To their left stretches a snowy ridge of uncertain outline and 
long enough to comprise the peaks of Mt. Baker and those of 
Mt. Luigi di Savoia. To the right, separated from Mt. Speke 
by a wide interval, is another snow peak, Mt. Gessi. 
On reaching the Mobuku Valley and ascending it as far as 
SAVOIA PEAK TAKEN FROM ALEXANDRA PEAK; MT. LUIGI DI SAVOIA 
IN THE BACKGROUND. 
Bujongolo, where he established his first camp, Moore fell into 
an error, which was subsequently shared by all his successors 
from Sir Harry Johnston to Dr. Wollaston, and which became 
the chief cause of the uncertainty which reigned up to the 
Duke’s exploration as to the position of the peaks. This error 
* J. E. S. Moore, “To the Mountains of the Moon,” London, 1901. 
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