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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
Subjects: Africa, Central -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Duckworth
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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139. Kunabembe village in recently cleared forest.
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> YUKADUMA TO ASSOBAM 141 magazines, and by their frequent questions, betrayeda lively interest in European affairs. In return formy information they satisfied my curiosity with regardto some of their customs, and in this way I was ableto obtain reliable details respecting their mode ofhunting. As soon as the conversation turned onthis subject, occupying as it does all their thoughtsand aspirations, they became very animated; theirgestures bespoke the enthusiastic hunter, and theywere indefatigable in their efforts to make us under-stand their methods of stalking elephants. Theyconfirmed the statement that I had heard in Molundu,that the spear is their only hunting weapon. Theymust certainly be possessed of extraordinary skill,physical endurance, coolness, and presence of mind inorder to get witliin striking distance of the elephant.After wounding him in the body with their iron weapon,they follow him until he collapses. The Pygmies ofthe South Cameroons never make use of bows anda

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