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Title: From the Congo to the Niger and the Nile : an account of The German Central African expedition of 1910-1911
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Adolf Friedrich, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, 1873-1969 Deutsche Zentral-Afrika-expedition, 1910-1911
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Publisher: London : Duckworth
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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oads. Finding great difficulty in obtaining provisions,and being heartily weary of the constant trouble withthe bearers, on the 19th of June I decided to give upthe idea of marching any further, and to travel fromGasua by boat. Owing to the numerous bends inthe Mbomu, this took three times as long as thejourney by land, and there was also the difficulty ofprocuring boatmen to be considered, but I was feel-ing wretchedly ill with fever, so that I had no choicein the matter. There were very few villages on theriver banks, owing to the yearly floods, and thetask of feeding my twelve boatmen was not an easyone. Hunting was my chief resource, and I shotseveral water-bucks, and black-heeled antelopes.One day I killed a large crocodile sixteen feet long,in whose stomach we found an antelope about thesize of a full-grown goat, with head and horns intact.Sleeping - sickness mosquitoes (Glossina palpalis)swarmed on the banks of the Mbomu, which was hereonly about a hundred and twenty feet wide.
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