Chapter V. 



impossible to get on any further on that day. With their ice- 

 axes they levelled a little space between the stones and here set 

 up the one Whymper tent which they had brought with them. 



After Bujongolo there were no more names for any of the 

 ])laces, and therefore the subsequent camp.s are indicated by 

 nuniijers. Tliis one on the rocks to the left of the Mobuku 

 Glacier, above the terminal ice-fall, was Camp I, altitude 

 14,118 feet. Botta and Laurent Petigax at once redescended 

 to Bujongolo. Joseph Petigax, Oilier and the porter Brocherel 

 remained witli H.R.H. The afternoon passed slowly and 

 tediously in the cold, damp fog, which did not lift until late 

 in the evening. 



Before daylight on the 10th of June, the weather being clear, 

 the Duke, .seized by an irresistible impatience to proceed, and 

 dreading a retin-n of tlie fog at any moment, hurried on the 

 guides at a forced pace down the I'ocks, on to the glacier, and up 

 the snow slopes witli their few crevasses, and in about half an 

 hour reached the top of the ridge. The daybreak had hardly 

 commenced. 



The wliole range of mountains stood before them, with only 

 the topmost peaks shrouded in mist. They had reached the 

 lowest point of tlie ridge at the top of the Mobuku Glacier. 

 Here a small peak projected from the snow, covered with 

 black lichens and mosses, while a few grasses and a species 

 of thistle blossomed on its sides. This is the rock which 

 Grauer, in January of the same year, had named King Edward 

 Peak, 14,813 feet. 



From this depression, which may l^e described as a col, the 

 ridge rises to the eastward, on the right, as far as two rocky 

 peaks* separated by a small glacier. WoUaston, with Woosnam, 



* Moore ;ui(l AVollaston Peaks. 



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