Exploration of Mt. Speke and Mt. Emin. 



electricity that tiny discharges began to crackle upon their 

 ice-axes, their tripod, and their barometer. Even their hair 



:MT. sl'EKE SEEN FK0:M the SENECIO FOKEST AT THE FOOT OF 



SCOTT Elliot's col. 



crackled upon their heads. It was a disagreeable situation, and 

 by no means without danger. 



To kill time, they built a big stone man on a point of rock 

 to the nortli-west, a little below the snow peak. In the 



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