Chapter IX. 



By the Ist of Julv, Roccati had fiiiisliwl his collection ot 

 minerals and rocks around this pass and the neighbouring 

 glacieis. He therefore descended to Bujongolo, leaving Vittorio 

 Sella alone witli Brocherel and Botta, obstinately determined 

 not to give up the struggle. In the afternoon the Duke also 

 crossed the pass, returning from the far distant Mt. Emin and 

 proceeding dii'ectly to Bujongolo. 



( )n tlie following morning, in most unpromising weather, 

 Vittorio Sella, witli tlie two guides, climlied the Edward Peak 

 directlv fnun the col by tlie soutliern ridge. He was able to 

 take an occasional jihotograpli and an incomplete panorama. 

 (_)n the way down he was overtaken by a violent recrudescence 

 of the storm, which lasted the whole of the next day with 

 alternate snow and liail. 



The spectacle presented by storms at that altitude (above 

 14,000 feet) is surpassingly grand. Heavy cumulus clouds 



MT. STANLEY FKOM KKESIIFIEI.I) S COL. 



hang over the Semliki River, wliicli winds far otf in the valley 

 like a streak of silver. Hu<ie bodies of wliiirniLi,' vaixmrs rise 



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