Chapter VI. 



Mobuku Glacier. From the col which they had just traversed, 

 a nearly perpendicular i-ock wall falls down to this valley on 

 the north. The eye followed the valley for a long distance 

 eastward and saw it turn southward in the distance to join 

 the Mobuku. Thus there remained no possible doubt as to 

 this being reallv the Bujuku Valley, and as to the great 

 snowy mountain to the north being really the Duwoni of 

 Johnston. To the south-east the view is shut out by the 

 mass of Kiyanja. 



The gfuides who had climbed the p'lacier to make out 

 the way to the central grouj) returned towards evening. 

 The sunset was less clear than on the preceding days. The 

 extreme nearness of the goal made the forced delay intolerable. 

 The Duke, cooped up with the guides in the narrow space 

 of a single tent, passed a great portion of the night in 

 anxious watching, preoccupied by disagreeable doubts as to 

 the weather. 



Finallv, the (lav dawned on the IStli of June with a clouded 

 grey sky. They roped together hastilv and in silence. Joseph 

 Petigax and ( )llier came first, then the Duke, and lastly, 

 Brocherel. Thev l)ei>an the ascent of the o-lacier alonj^' the 

 wav traced bv the guides on the jircceding day. The great 

 ice plain was reached witliont ditiicultv m about one hour. 

 It was (i.:M> in the morning, and the j)eaks which thev desired 

 to reach stood befoic them at a vei'v short distance. Thev 

 were both covered with snow, and the southernmost, which 

 stood nearest to tliem, showed a rock precipice on the east 

 side smmounted bv a big cornice of snow and was joined 

 i)y a rounded ice col to the northern peak, which was some- 

 wdmt higiier, and from which lan down two ridges, one 

 eastward in a straight line towaids the \allev. the other north- 



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