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PRINCE AS MOUNTAIN CLIMBER.
DUKE OF THE ADRUZZI ON RUWENZORL
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TRIBUTE TO THE DARING YOUNG, ROYAL EXPLORER.
We take the following from the Morning. Lender of 14th ult:-
The Royal Geographical Society had to re fusa many, thousands of tickets for admission to hear the Duke of the Abruzzi dosçriba his
Other peaks waje 'named after the King and i Queen of Italy and after Klog. Edward;:, while | the names of previous explorers were also used
to distinguish others. Altogether, the range: consisted of six principal groups.
CLIMBED SIXTEEN PEAKS, SPARE After being in the region; of the mountains for 35 days, during, which time the, duba climbed 16 perks, the,paity.retraced their: steps: to the coast by the way they came, and landed at Marseilles on 13 Sept
The duke attributed this: success of the ex-
exciting adventures in climbing the Rupedition to the fact that the party travelled, wenzori range, the famous African mountains, very lightly equipped. In concluding, be and planting the italian flag on the summit. thanked the British Government and the local T'ho lecture was delivered in the Queen's Hall authorities of British East Africa-and, Uganda. on aturday evening in the presence of King for the facilities granted; him.
Edward and the Prince of Wales, and a large and fashionable audience that filled the build«' ing in every part. At its close the King paid an eloquent tribute, to the courage and skill of The young royal explorer.
To illustrate the lecture, a number of excel.
4 lent views were thrown on a large limelight screan, on each side of which were suspended the British and Italian flags. All the whole front of the platform was banked with feras, Palms, and dowers.
As brilliant an audience as. has been seen in the Queen's Hall during recent years occu pied the ground-floor stalls. The company on The platform included Sir George Taubman „Goldie," president of the Royal Geographical Society, the Italian and Japanese Ambassadors, the Servian, Belgian, and Danish Ministers, the Marquess of Ripon, Earl of Warwick, Lord Scarborough, Lord Kinnaird, Sir Clement Markham, Admiral Fremantle, and representa- tives of the principal Embassies and Legations in London.
THE ROYAL PARTY.
At ping o'clock the royal party, wearing oven. ing dress, entered the hall, the audience stand
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Sir George Taubruna Goldie, at the outset, said that was the first occasion that the society had ever been honoured by the presence at their. meetings of their soverziga.
The Duke of the Abruzzi, who spoke in ex- cellent English, has a good oratorical gift, and his voice reached to every part of the large building.
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His Majesty and the Prince of Wales, seated to chairs at the right of the lecturer, half facing the audience and half facing the screen, follow. ed the various incidents, described with close interest.
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EARLIEST SIGHTEES OF THE MOUNTAIN. The duke described his exploration of the summits known as the Ruwenzori Mountains, situated in Central Africa between two of the great lakes of the Nile sources-Albert and Al- bert Edward. The range was probably seen for the first time by Europeans by Sir Samuel „Baket in 1854, and later by Gessi in 1876.
Neither traveller formed any exact idea of the importance of the range, however, and to
Sir Henry Stanley was reserved the distinction of being its true discoverer.
Stanley not only saw the mountain range to the south from Lake Albert, but in the fellow. ing year traversed its western slopes, Stanley received many different answers to his inquiries as to the name locally given to these white mountains, Amongst the various native de signations he chose that of Ruwenzori, which in the language of Misora meant "rain-maker." Ruwenzori was the only snowy range in the Nile basin, and therefore the only mountain that met Ptolemy's statement that the Nile was fed from mountain snows.
THE LATE..T EXPEDITION. After describing the numerous attempts made to reach the summit of the mountain, the duke told how he left Naples on 16 April last year, accompanied by several Italian coologists and botanists, in order to reach the mountain by June or July, when the rainfall was less persistent.
The complete camp material was divided into 114 cases, each weighing solb. The provi sions were divided into do cases, each of 50lb., so arranged as to be carried by porters on their bead.
After, go days travel and a journey of 6,0:0 miles they arrived at the foot of the range, hav. TO LÉT.
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Next day, favoured by fine weather, the royal traveller and his party reached the crest of the mountain in three-quarters of an hour over slightly crevassed snow slopes.,
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KING EDWARD'S TRIBUTE." At the conclusion of the lecture, King Ed- ward rose immediately, and addressing the duke and the audience, anid:"
1 feel convinced that I am expressing the wishes of the Rayal Geographical Society, as well as those of this large assemblage to-night, when we tender nur thanks to his Royal High- ness the Duke of the Abruzzi Tor the interest; - ing and exhaustive tecrure which he has just given us
He has travelled a long way for this pur- pose, and it has been no doubt a great strain on his voice; but I feel sura that all of us will go home fully impressed with the ad- mirable manner in which this expedition was. fitted out and the successful results which i has attained.
We have been interested and helped by the lantern slides, which have been taken. - from the splendid photographs of the dis tinguished Mr. Sella, who accompanied the duke on this expedition, and I am sure every. thing we have sean has brought before us as vividly almost ne if, wo had been with him. the adventures-and the successful adven.. tures-which he endured, and the success in surmounting those high peaks of the Ru wenzori,
But his Royal Highness is a great traveller and a great explorer. He has done more than even he bàn told us to-night. : If I re- fer back ten years ago he organised an ex- pedition to attempt to ascend the still uni climbed peak of Kinchinjunga, the second ¡ highest mountain in the world, but owing to the outbreak of plagos in India difficulties arote which led him, I believe, to, leavo' Darjeeling, and turn his attention to Mount Elias, in Alaska, over 18,000 feet in height, which he was the first to ascend,
In 1899 and 1900 the duke led an admir.. ably organised expedition in an attempt to reach the North Pole. One branch of this expedition attained a latitude 30 miles nearer to the Pole than the record established; by' Nausen, and not far short of the latitude which has since been attained by Commun. der Peary, t
Our distinguished lecturer is, fortunataly. for him, a young man, and 'I hope he has a long life before him in which he will con- tinue to make explorations which are of such value both to science and geography,
GOOD FRIENDS AND ALIIFS,
• He belongs niso to an illustrious and dis- tinguished race--I am happy to think good friends and allies of ours. (Cheers.):
Above all things, he possesses great cour-" age, great coolness, and great will. This will, I am sure, carry him through any far, ther expeditions or explorations he may make.
thank him again in the name of us all for his lecture, and I wish him continued success in the course of any future expedi tion he may attempt.
fris Majesty's speech, which, was of quite an impromptu character, was received with loud
cheers,
THE DUKE'S REPLY. The Duke of the Abruzzi, in reply, said;
May it please your Majesty, I am very deeply moved by, the presence of your Ma- jesty, and by the flattering words you have just addressed to me. No praites could be more gratifying than those coming from King Edward the Seventh, the Sovereign of the nation which has always taken the lead in every kind of daring discovery and geo- graphical enterprise, over land and on 108, from the Equater to the Pole. The recep- tion given to me in the country by your Majesty and by your Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and by the Geographical Society will remain one of the dearest-recol- lections of my life, and be deeply appre- ciated by all Italians. The audience remained standing while the royal party left
Ships Fassed The Canal,
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22nd January-Benglos, Filmiskira; Diubig- hall, Glaucus, Manila, 25th January-Raon, Radnorshire, Slavonia, Suevia, Tonkin, Prins "This three-quarters of an hour," declared Ettel, Friedrich, Kamakura Maru. Primasta the duke, "seemed to me a century, and Alice. 29th January-Kouang St, Poly- pressed the guides to a pace which brought us phemus, Teendat, Breconshire, Drumgaith, all breathless to the top at dawn. The cloud Elkantaro, Glenstrae, Razdara, St, Domingo, less sky allowed us to see all the snowy peaks' St. Patrick. at February-C. Ferd Loklan, which constitute the loftiest part of the chain." Calchas, Dardanus, Verona, Yarra, Namur, During the three following days, however, Nile. 5th February-Benlawers, Benlomond, the party were unable further to explore the | Keemun, Persia, Alderney, Bluecross, Habs- route by which to reach the saddle between barg, Liberia, Siberien. 8th February-Cep. the two highest peaks, dark fog and rain hold on, Antenor, Ernest Simons, Hitachi Marw, ing them prisoners in a narrow dungeon where Sanuki Maru, Amberlin, Bellerophon, Hoken- 'their camp. was pitched. After great difficulties | staufen, Kronging, Prins Ludwig, Vandalia,
12th February-Neptune, Brakernog, Frany: N., WEST END TERRACE, Shameen, and trials the party reached the foot of the de
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a sleep snow slope mounted the ridge.
Agamemnon, Ping Sury, St. Georga, Hubla, ;` MEMORY OF TWO NATIONS.
Rivirclyde. "The ridge, was ours," said the Duke, "and Arrivals at Home-22nd January-Poly- at the same time the top. To these summité, merian, Stikonia, Prielli, 'Prima Regint Zuit- the only ones in vlow, I gave the names of pold, 25th January—Marionetkihire, Myrmi- Margherita and Alexandra, in order that under dow, 18th January-Afaragon. 29th January the auspices of the two royal ladies the memory-Rhinania,' in February-Glenavon, Prinx of two nations might be handed down to Ellel Friedrich, Yeddo, „Dienmohr, Braemar, posterity of Italy, the name of which re | Pak Ling. 4th February-Formosa, 5th sounded for the first time on these snows in February-Kaunabec, Segovia, Yarra, Kama Duz shout of victory, and of England, which in | kura Mors: 13th February-Glaucus, Slam, its marvellous colonial expansion carries civili-Rikastard. 15th February-C. „Ferd, Zarisë, sating to the slopes eren of these remote | Rlistikdre, Karman, Hitachi, Mary, St. De [65 | mountains,”
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