CHAPTER Y. 
Peaks at the Head of Mobuku Valley. 
Organization of the Base Camp at Bujongolo—Upper Mobuku Valley—- 
II.R.H. starts on the first exploring party—The Mobuku Glacier—Camp on 
the edge of the Glacier—Terminal Ridge and Grauer Rock—First comprehensive 
view of the Ruwenzori Chain—First Ascent of the Kiyanja Peaks—Vittorio 
Sella at Camp I—Photographic work at Grauer Rock—Fog, Snow and 
Storms—Sella ascends a third peak of the group—Difficult descent to 
Bujongolo—Four days of bad weather—Camp Life—A leopard visits the 
•camp—The journey of Commander Cagni from Entebbe to Bujongolo. 
On the morning of the 8th June the 
Bakonjo porters who had stopped the 
day before at Buamba arrived at 
Bujongolo in small detachments. 
Meantime the Duke and his com¬ 
panions, feeling very stiff and un¬ 
comfortable after a night spent upon 
the rocks, in the open air, deliberated 
as to the best means of forming a 
camp under the existing conditions. 
At first sight the thing seemed 
impossible. Great blocks of rock, heaped in confusion at 
the foot of the cliff, or projecting from the hollow at its 
base, left not a yard of ground free. Underneath, the pile 
of blocks formed caverns and hollows of which a few were 
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