The Tanganyika problem; an account of the researches undertaken concerning the existence of marine animals in Central Africa . tchwi, and occupied about three weeks. My highestpoint reached on the top of this ridge was 14,900 my return to Fort Jerry my colleague, , made a separate journey to the mountains andreached a point nearer to the Mobuko glacier, 14,600 was the point subsequently reached by Sir HarryJohnston, who makes it 14,800 ft. Still later, Mr. Wilde,an officer of the Uganda Protectorate, reached a point onthe same or an adjacent ridge of 14,900 ft., bu
The Tanganyika problem; an account of the researches undertaken concerning the existence of marine animals in Central Africa . tchwi, and occupied about three weeks. My highestpoint reached on the top of this ridge was 14,900 my return to Fort Jerry my colleague, , made a separate journey to the mountains andreached a point nearer to the Mobuko glacier, 14,600 was the point subsequently reached by Sir HarryJohnston, who makes it 14,800 ft. Still later, Mr. Wilde,an officer of the Uganda Protectorate, reached a point onthe same or an adjacent ridge of 14,900 ft., but, as he wasusing an aneroid his altitude is probably rather overestimated. As to the question of the height attained byany of the other snow ridges and peaks of the range, Icame to the conclusion that there was nothing more than athousand feet higher than the point on which I was, eitherto the north or to the south, and this would give an outsidealtitude for the highest peaks of the range of, say, enough, this is practically the same height whichall the older explorers ascribed to the range—namely,. THE TANGANYIKA PROBLEM. io5 Stanley, Stuhlmann, Stairs and Scott Elliot. Sir Harry-Johnston, on the other hand, who did not get as high asmyself, holds 20,000 ft. as a minimum for some of thenumerous peaks which he did not even attempt, but as he
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