Chapter IX. 
By the 1st of July, Roccati had finished his collection of 
minerals and rocks around this pass and the neighbouring- 
glaciers. He therefore descended to Bujongolo, leaving Vittorio 
Sella alone with Brocherel and Botta, obstinately determined 
not to give up the struggle. In the afternoon the Duke also 
crossed the pass, returning from the far distant Mt. Emin and 
proceeding directly to Bujongolo. 
On the following morning, in most unpromising weather, 
Vittorio Sella, with the two guides, climbed the Edward Peak 
directly from the col by the southern ridge. He was able to 
take an occasional photograph and an incomplete panorama. 
On the way down he was overtaken by a violent recrudescence 
of the storm, which lasted the whole of the next day with 
alternate snow and hail. 
The spectacle presented by storms at that altitude (above 
14,000 feet) is surpassingly grand. Heavy cumulus clouds 
MT. STANLEY FROM FRESHFIELD’S COL. 
hang over the Semliki River, which winds far off in the valley 
like a streak of silver. Huge bodies of whirling vapours rise 
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