Chapter V. 



impossible to get on any further on that day. With their ice- 

 axes they levelled a little space between the stones and here set 

 up the one Whyniper tent which they had brought with them. 



After Bujongolo there M'ere no more names for any of the 

 places, and therefore the subsequent camps are indicated by 

 numbers. This one on the rocks to the left of the Mobuku 

 Glacier, above the terminal ice-fall, was Camp I, altitude 

 14,118 feet. Botta and Laurent Petigax at once redescended 

 to Bujongolo. Joseph Petigax, Oilier and the porter Brocherel 

 remained with H.R.H. The afternoon passed slowly and 

 tediously in the cold, damp fog, wliich did not lift until late 

 in the evening. 



Before daylight on the 10th of June, the weather being clear, 

 tlie Duke, seized by an irresistible impatience to proceed, and 

 dreading a return of the fog at any moment, hurried on the 

 guides at a forced pace down the rocks, on to the glacier, and up 

 the snow slopes witli their few crevasses, and in about half an 

 hour reached tht^ top of the ridge. The daybreak had liardly 

 commenced. 



The whole rancre of mountains stood before them, with onlv 

 the topmost peaks sln-ouded in mist. Thev had reached tlie 

 lowest point of the ridge at tlie top of the Mobuku Glacier. 

 Here a small peak projected from the snow, covered with 

 black licliens and mosses, while a few grasses and a species 

 of thistle blossomed on its sides. This is the rock whicli 

 Grauer, in January of the same year, had named King Edward 

 Peak, 14,813 feet. 



From this depression, wliich may be described as a col, the 

 ridge rises to tlie eastward, on tlie right, as far as tw(> rocky 

 peaks* separated by a small glacier. Wollaston, with Woosnam, 

 * Moore {ind Wollaston Peaks. 

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