Further Ascents and Work at Bujongolo. 



insufficient handholds, and skirting round rocky gendarmes on 

 their smooth, steep sides, they reached the real summit about 

 six in the evening. 



The mist had entirely disappeared, Init iiigiitfall was very 

 near. Commander Cagni had scarcely time to take observations 

 of all the peaks with the compass. They came dow^n in the 

 dark. 



On the following morning by sunrise, the ^veather being 

 perfectly clear, Cagni was once more on the summit, and was 

 able to take measurements of all tlie angles with the theodolite 

 and with the compass. They set up a stone man, and by eight 

 o'clock they were preparing to return when the first mists began 

 to rise. They came back by t]:ie same way, along the spur to 

 the north of the peak and then down into the little valley 

 to the west of it, which they now descended to the point 

 where it opens into the Mobuku Valley. Here the mist, which 

 had become dense, was added to all the other difficulties of 

 crossing the tangled forest, which was very similar to the one 

 above Kichuchu. They reached Bujongolo the same evening. 



Sella was there alone, w^aiting for Cagni's Alpine tent to set 

 forth upon a new photographic expedition. The Duke had 

 gone up to Camp I upon Mt. Baker that very dav. From 

 this point on the following day, July 10th, through a gullv to 

 the east and then along the south ridge, he reached the 

 WoUaston Peak, 15,286 feet, wliicli had not as yet been 

 ascended by any member of the expedition. The rocks were 

 covered with ice. The weather was clear, and lie ^^^as able 

 to take observations for two whole hours. Next, fbllowinsr 

 the high ridge, he traversed to the Moore Peak, whence he 

 came down along the ridge which had already been climbed 

 by Vittorio Sella, to the Grauer Col, and so back to Bujongolo. 



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