CHAPTER Y. 

 Peaks at the Head of Mobuku Yai-ley. 



Organization of tlie Base Camp at Bujongolo — Upper Mo1»uku Valley — 

 H.R.H. starts on the first exploring party — The Mobuku Glacier — Camp on 

 the edge of the Glacier — Terminal Ridge and Grauer Eock — First comprehensive 

 view of the Rmvenzori Chain — First Ascent of the Kiyanja Peaks — Vittorio 

 Sella at Camp I — Photographic work at Grauer Rock — Fog, Snow and 

 Storms — Sella ascends a third peak of the group — Difficult descent to 

 Bujongolo — Four days of bad weather — Camp Life — A leopard visits the 

 'C-amp — The journey of Commander Cagni from Entebbe to Bujongolo. 



Ox the morniuo; of the 8th June the 

 Bakonjo porters wlio luid >sto})ped the 

 day hefore at Buaniba arrived at 

 Bujongolo ill small detachments. 

 Meantime the Duke and his com- 

 panions, feeling very stiff and un- 

 comfortable after a night spent uj^oii 

 the rocks, in the open air, deliberated 

 as to tlie l)est means of forming a 

 camp under tlie existing conditions. 

 At fii'st siii'lit tlie thine: seemed 

 impossible. Great blocks of rock, heaped in confusion at 

 tlie foot of the cliff, or projecting from the hollow at its 

 base, left not a yard of ground free. Underneath, the pile 

 of blocks foiiiied ca\'erns and hollows of which a few were 



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