Cl)ai)ter A. 



The Miii'usi Valley is uIko formed of a series of successive 

 terraces. They ascended tirst one rise and then another, and 

 finally reached a slightly inclined plain leading to the head 

 of tlie valley where the narrow gorge between Mts. Eniin 

 and Gessi begins. They skirted the plain and ascended the 

 right slope of the valley to a point not far from the end 

 of the lolanda Glacier. All of the Bakonjo were marching 

 remarkably well. Tlie liardest work was for the guides, who 

 had to cut a patli through the dense thickets of 

 brush. 



Camp X (13,GG8 feet) was set up close to the ancient 

 moraine, only a few hundred yai'ds from the present face of 

 the glacier, which ends in broken sdracs on the })row of a clift'. 

 The senecios and helichrysums climb up a little higher than 

 the point where the camp was fixed. The view from this 

 high level over the great amphitheatre of mountains is one 

 of the finest panoramas of the whole Ruwenzori range. 



(-)n the mornino;' of the 1 6th there was hard frost all around 

 the camp. The start was made before daybreak. First they 

 ascended a gully overhung by the terminal seracs of the 

 lolanda Glacier. Tlien they crossed the rocks to the right 

 of the gully and reached the snow, and then the south-east 

 ridge of the mountain. At 6.30 a.m., the Duke set foot 

 upon the rocky summit of the lolanda Peak (15,647 feet). 

 Tlie rope had not been used in the ascent. Oilier began at once 

 to build a monmnental stone man. 



The weather had been threatening when they set forth, Init 

 liad now liecome quite clear, and the view of the mountains was 

 complete in e^•ery detail, so tliat the Duke was able to make one 

 more photographic panorama of the entire range. In this way 

 the whole chain was photographed in panoramas taken from 



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