Further Ascents and Work at Bujongolo. 
momentary clearing of the mist, to distinguish the Weismami 
Peak to the south-west at the end of a long snowy ridge. 
On their return they descended straight to the bottom of 
the valley, which was full of watery and muddy spots, with 
the usual vegetation of senecio, and reached the tent after 
nightfall with line moonlight. 
Vittorio Sella finally rejoined the rest of the expedition 
at Bujongolo on the 5th of July, after a whole week spent 
upon the Freshfield Pass in fruitless expeditions up the ridges, 
and hours and hours of waiting beside his camera in the storms. 
For all his tenacity and energy he had not succeeded in getting 
a complete panorama from the Edward Peak as he had proposed 
to do. 
The party at Bujongolo had not meantime remained idle. 
Commander Cagni had vainly attempted to take magnetic 
observations, but was prevented by the abundance of minerals 
containing iron in the rocks around Bujongolo. This influence 
was so considerable that it could be felt even when the 
inclinometer was placed at a height of some yards above 
the earth upon a wooden frame-work constructed for the 
purpose. 
The greatest difficulty, however, was in finding a stretch 
of ground level enough and wide enough to allow of measuring 
a base line whose extremities were to be connected with two 
of the peaks forming a part of the network of angles 
measured by the Duke from the different mountains which he 
ascended. 
There was a level place some distance back, above the 
cliff’ at the foot of which stood the Camp of Bujongolo. But 
from this level space they could only see the Edward and 
Cagni Peaks which had not been connected with the others. 
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