Exploration of Mt. Speke and Mt. Emin. 
prearranged points on the return route, so that the caravan 
could move quickly, having only to carry the light camp 
material. 
Finally, on the 1st of July, they crossed the Fresh field Pass, 
where Vittorio Sella had set up his tent, and was waiting with 
Botta for fair weather so as to be able to do some work with the 
camera. The Duke proceeded under falling rain and returned 
to the muddy Mobuku Valley, and to the camp of Bujongolo 
after seventeen days’ absence. 
The Prince had spent the whole of this time at heights 
above 13,000 feet, with light and barely sufficient equipment, 
sleeping with his two guides in a single Whymper tent, 
without a camp bed, with clothes nearly always soaked with 
rain and snow, and with such discomfort and fatigue as are 
known only to those who have experienced mountain life 
under similar conditions. 
In the course of these seventeen days he had ascended 
Margherita, Alexandra (twice), Elena, and Savoia Peaks of 
Mt. Stanley, Vittorio Emanuele Peak of Mt. Speke (twice), 
and Umberto Peak of Mt. Emin, crossed the Freshfield, Scott 
Elliot, and Stuhlmann Passes and explored the head of the 
Bujuku Valley, and the western slopes of Mt. Speke. He 
had determined the relative positions of the peaks, and the 
relation to each other of the several groups, a work already 
in great part sketched out during his first ascents of the 
peaks of Mt. Baker, but now completed by numerous altimetric 
and angular mensurations. 
His work was carefully planned to proceed in conjunction 
with that of the other members of the expedition, in order 
to insure a thorough exploration of the ranges, as we shall 
see in the following chapter. 
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