CHAPTER y. 

 Peaks at the Head of Mobuku Valley. 



Organization of the Base Camp at Bujongolo— Upper Mobuku Valley — 

 H.R.H. starts on the first exploring party— The Mobuku Glacier— Camp on 

 the edge of the Glacier — Terminal Ridge and Grauer Eock— First comprehensive 

 view of the Ruwenzori Chain— First Ascent of the Kiyanja Peaks— Vittorio 

 Sella at Camp I— Photographic work at Grauer Rock— Fog, Snow and 

 Storms— Sella ascends a third peak of the group — Difficult descent to 

 Bujongolo — Four days of bad weather — Camp Life — A leopard visits the 

 camp — The journey of Commander Cagni from Entebbe to Bujongolo. 



()x the morning of the 8th June the 

 Biikoiijo porters who had stopped the 

 I lay hefore at Buaniba arrived at 

 Bujongolo in sntall detachments. 

 Meantime the Duke and his com- 

 panions, f'eehng very stiff and un- 

 comfortable after a night spent upon 

 tlie rocks, in the open air, deliberated 

 as to the best means of forming a 

 cam|) under the existing conditions. 

 At first sight the thing seemed 

 impossible. Great blocks of rock, heaped in confusion at 

 the foot of the cliff, or projecting from the hollow at its 

 base, left not a yard of ground free. Underneath, the pile 

 of blocks formed caverns and hollows of which a few were 



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