Exploration of Mt. Speke and Mt. Elinin. 



prearranged points on tlie return lonte, so tliat the caravan 

 could move cpiickly, liaviinj,' only to carry the liglit camp 

 material. 



Finally, on the 1st of July, they crossed the Freshfield Pass, 

 where Vittorio Sella had set up his tent, and was waiting with 

 Botta for fair weather so as to be able to do some work with the 

 camera. The Duke proceeded under falling rain and returned 

 to the muddy Mobuku Valley, and to the camp of Bujongolo 

 after seventeen days' absence. 



The Prince had spent the whole of tliis time at heights 

 above 13,000 feet, with light and barely sufttcient equipment, 

 sleeping \v\ii\ liis two guides in a single Whymper tent, 

 witliout a camp l)ed, with clothes nearly always soaked with 

 rain and snow, and with such discomfort and fatigue as are 

 known onlv to those who have experienced mountain life 

 under similar conditions. 



In the course of these seventeen days he had ascended 

 Margherita, Alexandra (twice), Elena, and Savoia Peaks of 

 Mt. Stanley, Vittorio Emanuele Peak of Mt. Speke (twice), 

 and Umberto Peak of Mt. Emin, crossed the Freshfield, Scott 

 Elliot, and Stuhlmann Passes and explored the head of the 

 Bujnkn Valley, and the western slopes of Mt. Speke. He 

 had determined the relative positions of the peaks, and the 

 I'elation to each other of the sevei'al grouj^s, a work already 

 in great part sketched out during his first ascents of the 

 ])eaks of Mt. Baker, but now completed by numerous altimetric 

 and angular mensurations. 



His work was carefully planned to proceed in conjunction 

 wit) I that of tlie other members of the expedition, in order 

 to insure a thorough exploration of the ranges, as we shall 

 see in tlie following chapter. 



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