Identifier: trampsroundmount00john (find matches)
Title: Tramps round the Mountains of the Moon and through the back gate of the Congo State
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Johnson, Thomas Broadwood
Subjects: Africa, Central -- Description and travel Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London (etc.) : T. F. Unwin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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interven-ing centuries, and no traveller till Stanley, in thispresent generation, seems to have been sufficientlystirred by the quaintness of the name, or the love ofexploring the vast unknown, to roam out into theheart of the continent and bring back a more certainaccount. To those living in Toro, Ruwenzori is, as it were,a part of their daily existence, to which their eyesnaturally turn for rest. And yet, inconceivable as itmay seem to those at home, Stanley on his first visitto the country in 1875, passed near the end of therange, mentioned a report of it as a story which hehardly credited, and came home without a glimpse.He had passed within a few miles of a mass rising outof the plain to a height of 16,800 ft. and yet doubtedits very existence ^; his visit had been m the dryseason when all was enveloped in haze. Which proves, in my opinion, the non-existence of thoseMountains of the Moon which have been drawn across Africasince Ptolemys tim« (Through the Dark Continent, p. 501).
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PRELIMINARY PEEP AT TORO TO-DAY 65 In view of the fact, his description of it, on hisvisit thirteen years later, is especially interesting :— ^May 25, i! While looking to the south-east, and meditatingupon the events of the last month, my eyes weredirected by a boy to a mountain said to be coveredwith salt, and I saw a peculiar shaped cloud of a mostbeautiful silver colour, which assumed the proportionsand appearance of a vast mountain covered with snow.Following its form downwards, I became struck withthe deep blue colour of its base, and wondered ifit portended another tornado ; then as the sightdescended to the gap between the eastern and westernplateaus, I became conscious for the first time thatwhat I gazed upon was not the image or semblanceof a vast mountain, but the solid substance of a realone with its summit covered with snow. It nowdawned upon me that this must be the Ruwenzoriwhich was said to be covered with a white metal orsubstance believed to be rock. ^ In one of the

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