The Ruwenzori Range. 
on the subject by Sir Henry H. Johnston in his recent work, The Nile Quest, j>. 28: “ The 
present writer is unable to understand why that able geographer, Mr. E. G. Ravenstein, has 
doubted the identification of Ruwenzori with Ptolemy’s Mountains of the Moon. It must be 
obvious, when all facts are considered, that Ruwenzori was the principal germ of this idea. 
The Greek traders at Rhapta (Pangani) no doubt had some idea of the existence of Kiliman- 
aro, but it is doubtful whether either the single dome of Kilimanjaro or the gleaming 
pinnacle of Kenia would impress the imagination so strongly as the whole brilliant range of 
Ruwenzori’s four or five snow peaks and thirty miles of glaciation.” 
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