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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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home on leaverather than undertake this part of the journey. Thereis often so little water in the Shari that boats haveto be dragged over long stretches of sand. Since theShari is navigable only during certain months of theyear, the necessity for a railway from the West Coastto the Tchad district is obvious. From Archambault I set out on foot via Irena andKabo to Crampel, through a barren country, in which,however, both big game and mosquitoes were plenti-ful. The latter were in fact so numerous near Irenathat I was obliged to travel by night, and takerefuge during the day under a mosquito-net. I shotsome water-buck, saiga-antelopes, and baboons. Theground was very stony, and the grass consequentlyso short that the game was easy to track. I wasdisappointed not to find Dr Schubotz at Crampel,both the Dukes letters and mine having unaccount-ably gone astray. Being therefore in ignorance ofour altered programme, he had travelled north, ex-pecting to meet me at Archambault, and must have
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