Exploration of 'Sit. Speke and Mt. Eniin. 



preaiTaii<;e(l jjoiiits on tlie return route, so that the caravan 

 could move quickly, having only to carry the light camp 

 material. 



Finally, on the 1st of July, they crossed the Freshfield Pass, 

 wliere Vittorio Sella had set up his tent, and was waiting witli 

 Botta for fiir weather so as to hi- ahle to do some work with the 

 camera. The Duke proceeded undei- tailing lain and retinned 

 to the muddy Mohuku Valley, and to the camp of Buj(Migolo 

 after seventeen davs' ahsence. 



The Prince had spent the wliole of this time at lieights 

 above 13,000 feet, with light and l)arely sutKcient equipment, 

 sleeping with his two guides in a single Whvmper tent, 

 without a camj) bed, with clothes nearlv always soaked with 

 rain and snow, and with such discomfort and fatigue as are 

 known only to those who have e.xpeiienced mountain life 

 under similar conditions. 



Tn the course of the.se .seventeen days he had ascendeil 

 Marglierita, Alexandra (twice), Elena, and Savoia Peaks of 

 Mt. Stanley, Vittorio Emanuele Peak of Mt. Speke (twice), 

 and Umberto Peak of Mt. Emin, crossed tiie Freshtiidd, Scott 

 Elliot, and Stuldinanu Passes and explored the head of the 

 Bujuku Vallev, and the western slojies of Mt. Speke. fh- 

 had determined the relative positions of the peaks, and the 

 relation to each other of tiie seveial groujis, a work already 

 in great part sketched out during his fir,st ascents of tlie 

 ])eaks of Mt. Baker, but now completed by numei-ous altimetric 

 and angular mensuiations. 



His work was carefully planned to proceed in conjunction 

 with that of the otiier members of the exj)editioii. in order 

 to insure a thorougli exploration of the ranges, as we shall 

 see in the following ciiajiter. 



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