From Fort Portal to Bujongolo—Mobuku Valley. 
satisfaction at having at last reached the foot of the mountains 
which they were to explore. The journey from Italy to this 
point had occupied 54 days. 
The first night was spent in the open. The tents had 
not arrived, and many were without even a sleeping bag. 
A few sheep had come so far with the porters, and frightened 
bv the strange place huddled around them. The shapes of 
the naked blacks crouching around a great fire showed dimly 
in the night. 
Cagni, barely convalescent, had left Entebbe two days 
before and was hastening, by forced marches, to join the 
expedition and take part in their work. 
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