Chapter IX. 



up the slopes of Mt, Baker and thence to traverse' under 

 Wollaston and Moore Peaks, towards the Cagui Peak. 



Accordingly the party turned its steps first towards 

 Grauer's Camp near to the Moore Glacier, and thence skirted 

 the eastern slopes of Mt. Baker, intending to reach tlie col 

 to the east of the Moore Peak. But their eternal enemy tht- 

 fog ohliged them to stop on tlie steep slope in the snow, 

 stones and mud. 



( )n the following day it hecame plain tliat it was impossihle 

 to pursue this route. It was necessary to go down to the narrow 

 gorge between Wollaston Peak and Mt. Cagui. This was no 

 easy task, and in more places than one tliey were obliged to let 

 do\A'n the loads by a rope, and even to let down the porters as 

 if tliev were parcels. Once at the foot of the south-west side 

 of tlie Cagni Peak, whicli was quite perpendicular to the very 

 bottom of tlie little valley, they ascended this latter as far as 

 its head, througli a dense wood of heath, and set up their tents 

 UTimediately under the col. 



From this ])oint, on July 8th, they followed the spur which 

 bears the Cagni Peak at its end along its whole length from 

 noi'th to south, keeping upon its western slope. In this way 

 tliev reached the terminal cone, where they left their e(piipment, 

 and after a short climb in the mist, about l^.SO p.m. they 

 reached a small platform, which they took for the summit. The 

 camp theodolite was at once set up upon its tripod. Suddenly 

 through the mist they j)erceived to the simth the real peak, 

 which the refraction of the mist caused them to .see as if at 

 a very great height over their heads. The theodolite was 

 immediately taken down, they descended from the little point 

 which they had reached, and after a real Alpine climb up a very 

 narrow ridge over a difficult h'ltoH ai'Ste, about 12 feet high with 



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