Chapter VII. 
consisted in his belief that at this point in the Mobnku Valley 
he was in the midst of the highest mountains of the chain 
which he had already seen from the plain at the foot of the 
Wimi Valley, and he still further increased the confusion by 
attempting to identify them with those described and identified 
by Stuhlmann from the western slope. 
It is not easy to make out Moore’s ascent. Upon an 
attentive perusal of his narrative, collated with H.R.H.’s 
map, the reader is led to suppose that on reaching the head 
of the Mobuku Valley he started to ascend to the left (that is 
to say, on the right slope of the valley) until he reached the 
glacier which he calls the central glacier, in other words the 
Baker’s Glacier of H.B.H.’s map,* by which glacier he would 
reach the ridge at a point between Semper Peak and Grauer’s 
Rock. As a matter of fact, however, in order to reach the 
Baker Glacier from the valley it would be necessary to climb 
rocks and gullies presenting such exceptional difficulties as to 
be surmountable only by a party of trained mountaineers— 
certainly not by a single white man accompanied by native 
porters. It is more probable that Moore began to climb the 
right slope of the valley at an earlier point. In this way 
he would have reached the Edward Glacier and ascended it to 
the southern ridge of the Edward Peak. 
Sir Harry Johnston attempted to reconstruct the chain as 
seen from a hypothetical point to its east, basing his conception 
upon the observations taken by preceding explorers. The 
representation thus obtained by him is much further from 
the truth than that of Stuhlmann and of Moore. From the 
* The glacier is clearly shown in one of Moore’s illustrations (p. 246), and 
also in a plate of Sir Harry Johnston’s, “ The Uganda Protectorate,” 2nd Ed., 
London, 1904, Yol. I, p. 178. 
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