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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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d as they were blown about, alighted on our faces,until we looked as black as niggers ; they also gaverise to inflammation of the eyes. In Possel I was surprised again to find no news ofSchubotz. I did not know that he had asked theDukes permission to follow the course of the Uellefrom Yakoma as far as Lado, instead of accompany-ing me along the Ubangi to the Nile. The vast Congoforest with its unexplored mysteries, and the hopeof shooting some of the rare okapis, were a far greaterattraction to him than the prospect of travellingin the sultanates and in Bahr-el-Ghazal. As Schubotzwrote to me, my itinerary seemed to offer nothingbut a daily struggle, firstly with passive resistersagainst the authority of a feeble Government,secondly, with the natural indolence of the natives,and thirdly, with the submerged and almost impass- $* ,\ -, * •; ~* . / V-,,;.,. .--,: I: V-. > ---Si: *» * .■*•■•• * - •» ■ — i^,> y *— aniii ^ ^^ .- 162. Forest avenues on the Ubangi.
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163. Banda women of the Togbo tribe.

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