Chapter IX. 
Vittorio Sella had set forth in the morning with Botta and 
a few natives, and had returned to the Freshfield Pass. He 
did not return again to Bujongolo. On the 11th of July he 
was again upon the Edward Peak at sunrise, and was at last 
enabled to take the complete panorama of the chain for which 
he had once waited a whole week in vain on the Freshfield 
Pass. On the way back he paid a visit to the little knob some¬ 
what lower down, which had been climbed twice by Wollaston, 
whose card he now found with the following inscriptions : 
“A. F. B. Wollaston, B. B. Woosnam, 17th February, 1906. 
Height by aneroid 16,050 feet.” 
“ A. F. B. Wollaston (Alpine Club), B. B. Woosnam, 
D. Carruthers of the British Museum Expedition to Buwenzori. 
Five hours from Bujongolo. Water boil. 183'6 ; temp, of air 
39'7 ; aneroid 16,150 feet, 3rd April, 1906.” 
On the 12th of July, the weather remaining fair, Sella again 
ascended the Stairs Peak, where he took some good photographs. 
In the meantime Commander Cagni had done two days’ work 
in finishing the mensuration of the base line and connecting it 
with Edward and Cagni Peaks, and was able to complete an 
occultation, fixing the longitude and the latitude of one of its 
extremities. 
In order to follow the intense activity of all the different 
members of the expedition occupied in such various ways and 
yet directed to one common aim, our story has necessarily 
become little more than a simple list of facts and of dates. 
After the return of the expedition to Bujongolo, the leopard 
had resumed his daring visits to the camp, killing sheep and 
coming close to the fires among the native porters to steal 
the meat. Everyone was too busy to heed him. But the 
cook, Igini, with Bulli, planned an ambush with two rifles 
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