Chapter V. 
impossible to get on any further on that day. With their ice- 
axes they levelled a little space between the stones and here set 
up the one Whymper tent which they had brought with them. 
After Bujongolo there were no more names for any of the 
places, and therefore the subsequent camps are indicated by 
numbers. This one on the rocks to the left of the Mobuku 
Glacier, above the terminal ice-fall, was Camp I, altitude 
14,118 feet. Botta and Laurent Petigax at once reclescended 
to Bujongolo. Joseph Petigax, Ollier and the porter Brocherel 
remained with H.R.H. The afternoon passed slowly and 
tediously in the cold, damp fog, which did not lift until late 
in the evening. 
Before daylight on the 10th of June, the weather being clear, 
the Duke, seized by an irresistible impatience to proceed, and 
dreading a return of the fog at any moment, hurried on the 
guides at a forced pace down the rocks, on to the glacier, and up 
the snow slopes with their few crevasses, and in about half an 
hour reached the top of the ridge. The daybreak had hardly 
commenced. 
The whole range of mountains stood before them, with only 
the topmost peaks shrouded in mist. They had reached the 
lowest point of the ridge at the top of the Mobuku Glacier. 
Here a small peak projected from the snow, covered with 
black lichens and mosses, while a few grasses and a species 
of thistle blossomed on its sides. This is the rock which 
Grauer, in January of the same year, had named King Edward 
Peak, 14,813 feet. 
From this depression, which may be described as a col, the 
ridge rises to the eastward, on the right, as far as two rocky 
peaks* separated by a small glacier. Wollaston, with Woosnam, 
* Moore and Wollaston Peaks. 
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