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Show this mountain di -eci'y under the equator. equa-tor. 'In the night time at the higher elevations he recorded temperatures below the freezing point. The air temperature tem-perature at the top of the mountain, over 17,000 feet above the sea, was 40 degrees above zero at noon and the lowest temperature on the previous night at 10,700 feet was 28 degrees. There are fifteen glaciers on the mountain moun-tain sides and evidences of other ice streams which no longer exist. The Lewis glacier is a mile long, the Gregory Greg-ory glacier is rather shorter, and all the others are small. ' All these glaciers gla-ciers head around the top of the mountain, moun-tain, and their lower ends reach levels lev-els of 14,450 tc 14,900 feet above sea level. Comparatively little water. was flowing from the glaciers and the ice which formed them was intensely hard and fed by fine hail rather than snow. N. Y. Sun. 'oI..ro:l I'iio:oB-apis. Mr. II. J. Macltlader, the professor of e- graphy at Oxford, who last summer made the fir.t complete ascent of Mo'int Ke-ia the great African snow . mountain through which the equator n-s-es took with him an outfit for tak- t 1 o 1 t . pt'otogrcDhs in color. This is the first time the'new art has been applied to the illustration of a scientific expedition, expe-dition, and the results Mr. Mackinder attained were quite gratifying. The color photographs were taken by the Ives process and show vivid effects m the reproduction of the colors of tropical tropi-cal skies, vegetation and waters. When Mr Mac-kinder made his report to the Royal Geographical Society of London Lon-don recently, he showed a number of the pictures, and the geographers agreed that photography in colors is a . most arable addition to the results of exploring enterprises. One of the color prints was a scene in the Nyika the scrub desert which extends for a hundred miles inland in the rear of the fertile costal belt. All who had seen - photographs of this waste wen Mm-messed Mm-messed with the far more vivid result 0 co'or Photography. The ordinary photograph gives no idea of the color, S ground, which is uniformly reddish, red-dish, but Mr. Mackinder s Picture showed the red tint of ' theearth j wdl as the black bodies of the dwarf bushel, bush-el, their brown tops and the light blue sky and white clouds above them. It is weU known that the chief reason why the African snow mountains were 1 long unascended was because the fativi could not be induced to climb ove the snow line. "ckinder discovered interesting proof that the Wanderobo natives, who live near he E2Tof Kenia, are constantly climbing around its sides and ascend higher than any other African natives have done He found the remains of grass tas in September when he climbed |