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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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\ vjffyw!* if fttt^£ 145. Bornu hunter in Dikoa. THROUGH GERMAN BORNU 157 is a fairly large town, and lies at the foot of the Man-dara Mountains in a gorge open only towards the north-west. The mountains are inhabited by heathentribes of a very low order of civilisation, who admitneither Europeans nor coloured Moslems to theirvillages. We had now reached the southern frontierof Bornu, and were about to enter the Fullah districtNordadamaua. Mora resembles the other Bornutowns, but is smaller than Karnak, Gulfei, Kusseri,or Dikoa. The next day Roder and I visited the sultan in hisfortress. We crossed several courts, in which werekept whole herds of tame gazelles, and on reachingthe apartments of the sultan, were warmly welcomedby him. He showed us all the curiosities of his palace,and finally the harem, though all his wives ran awayas we entered. Then he conducted us in person toour horses. The people in the street cheered andshouted, and the sultan smilingly shook hands withus as if t

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