358 THE DUKE OF ABRUZZI 



Delhi and Agra, where he saw the old ruins of the time of the Moguls, they 

 reached Bombay on August 25. On the 28th the P. & O. liner Oceana bore 

 them out of Bombay harbor toward Europe. 



All this was told to the Italian newspaper man mainly by the Marquis Ne- 

 grotto and Sella, the photographer. As for the taciturn duke, he spent most 

 of the days of the sea journey writing in the music room of the steamer, or 

 else stretched out on his deck chair. Even when he took a walk on deck with 

 the Marquis or another of his friends, he scarcely spoke at all. His eyes, says 

 the Italian, seemed fixed on something far away, as if planning new expeditions 

 to remote parts of the world. 



FRUITS OF THE EXPEDITION. 



According to Marquis Negrotto, the duke will be occupied for some time in 

 getting into shape the great mass of scientific and other data collected during 

 the course of their journey by himself and those who accompanied him. The 

 most important part of these are the combined topographical and photographic 

 records, in which both the duke and Negrotto were much interested before 

 their departure. At that time they elaborated the combination of photographic 

 and topographical work under the direction of Signor Paganini, of the Geo- 

 graphical Military Institute of Florence, the inventor of the photographic the- 

 odolite, who was the first, by means of this system, to obtain exact descriptions 

 of Monte Rosa, Mont Cenis and other Alpine peaks. The system, however, 

 had never been used before at such altitudes as those attained by the Abruzzi 

 on his Himalayan journey. 



