Chapter III. 



The various menihers of the expedition were hy no means 

 idle during camp. Tlie Duke was in the habit of attending in 

 person to the sorting and verifying of the equipment ; to the 

 meteorological observations taken with instruments arranged 

 in the little camp observatorv which was set up at each camp 

 in the most suitabU- position ; and to the observations of 

 lono-itude and latitude. 



CAMP .\T P.TMOXGO. 



At eacli halt Dr. Cavalli was innnediately besieged by 

 crowds of native patients from every distiict, while one or 

 another of the porters was siu'e to make daily demands upon 

 his treatment. 



Sella, besides his photographic work, would spend part of 

 the afternoon in roaming in the neighbourhood of the camp with 

 Roccati and Cavalli in cjuest of botanical and zoological 



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