Further Ascents and \Vork at Bujongolo. 



Mt. Speke. Several Bakonjo had hruised their feet and 

 stood ill need of the doctor's care. Profiting })y the absence 

 of the greater part of tlie tents, they proceeded with the 

 work of improving the camp, enlarging the platforms already 

 existing and forming new ones, filling up holes, moving blocks 

 of rock and cutting down trees to increase the level space at 

 tlieir disposal. 



The fearful weather prevented them from taking any 

 ol)servations. Duriiip; a \\'liole week Commander Caefiii was not 

 al)le to see the sun for a single continuous hour. The rainfall 

 was slight l)ut almost incessant, and tlie fog was so dense as 

 to make it impossible to see the further side of the valley. 



In spite of all this, Commander Cagni M'as able to take 

 a few astronomical observations during^ fug-itive moments of 

 clear weather on the 25th, 27th, and 28th of June. 



(.)n the 25th, Vittorio Sella, taking advantage of a slight 

 impi'ovement in the weather, started from Camp IV with 

 Roccati, Brocherel, and Botta and accomplished the ascent 

 of tlie Moebius Peak, the only one of Mt. Stanley which had 

 not yet been ascended. He then made a short excursion 

 on the serpentine rocks of the western slopes, crossing the 

 ridge after demolishing the great snowy cornice with the ice- 

 axes. Here they had a view of two good-sized lakes in the 

 valley to the west. They came back to camp under a heavy 

 snowfiill, but tlie day had not been wasted. 



He set forth again on the following morning, by daybreak, 

 M'iti 1 Brocherel and Botta. From the ice plain they saw the 

 Duke on the summit of the Vittorio Emanuele Peak. They 

 took photographs betw^een one drift of mist and another, 

 and ill due time reached the summit of Alexandra Peak. 

 The snow began to fall again as they returned to camp. 



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