Chapter IX. 



Bv the 1st of Jiilv, Roccati hud finished his collection of 

 minerals and rocks around this pass and the neighbouring 

 glaciers. He therefore descended to Bujongolo, leaving Vittorio 

 Sella alone Avitli Brocherel and Botta, obstinately determined 

 not to give up the struggle. In the afternoon the Duke also 

 crossed the pass, returning from tlie fiir distant Mt. Emin and 

 proceeding directly to Bujongolo. 



On tlie following morning, in most impromising weather, 

 Vittorio Sella, w ith the two guides, climbed the Edward Peak 

 directlv from the col bv the southern ridu'e. He was able to 

 take an occasional photograph and an incomplete panorama. 

 On tlie way down he was overtaken l)y a violent recrudescence 

 of the storm, which lasted the whole of the next dav with 

 alternate snow and liail. 



The s|)ectacle presented by storms at that altitude (above 

 14,000 feet) is surjjassingly grand. Heavy cumulus clouds 



.M'l'. SIAM.KY Fl!oM J-KKSIIFI KLD S ('Of,. 



hang over the Semliki Kivcr. which winds far oil' in tlie valley 

 like a streak of silver. Huge bodies of whirling vapours rise 



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