Exploration of .Alt. Speke and ]\It. Eiiiin. 



electricity that tiny discharges began to crackle iipon their 

 ice-axes, their tripofl, and their barometer. Even tlieir hair 



MI. ^I'EKE .sKEN FllU.M THE .SENECIO FuUEST AT THE FOOT OF 



SCOTT Elliot's col. 



crackled upon their heads. It was a disagreeable situation, and 

 by no means without danger. 



To kill time, tliey built a big stone man on a point of rock 

 to the north-west, a little below the .snow peak. In the 



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