Chapter III. 



The various luenihers of the expedition were by no means 

 idle during camp. The Duke was in the habit of attending in 

 person to the sorting and verifying of the equipment ; to the 

 meteorological observations taken with instruments arranged 

 in the little camp observatorv which was set up at each camp 

 in the most suitabl<' jiosition ; and to the observations of 

 lonofitude and latitudt/. 



CAMP AT BlUONGO. 



At each liah Dr. Cavalli ^\"as immediately besieged by 

 crowds of native patients from every district, while one or 

 anotlier of the porters was sure to make daily demands upon 

 his treatment. 



Sella, b«^si(h^s his photograpliic woik, woidd spend part of 

 the afternoon in roaming in tlie neigh))()mli(H)(l of the camp with 

 Koccati and Cavalli in (piest (»f botanical and zoological 



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