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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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up an atom of courage inorder to save his life. This description recalls that of my friend Kirch-stein, who on the Dukes first expedition lost twentymen in a snowstorm on the volcano Karissimbi, nearLake Kiwu. After this experience Schultze lost all desire to makeany further attempt to reach the summit. On the9th of November he crossed to Victoria in the littleSpanish steamer, and returned home in the LucieWoermann. His diary ends as follows :— I gained little from all the strenuous and dis-couraging labour of cutting a path. Mildbraed ^villenjoy the fruits, and I shall earnestly beg him to ascendthe Peak now that the weather is improving daily,and not allow it to defeat the expedition. I found this request as a legacy on my return toSanta Isabella from San Carlos, the day after Schultzesdeparture. He had also left me detailed instructionsas to the road, in fact a Baedeker of the Peak.I cannot say that I felt tempted; I, too, had hadenough of it, and should have preferred to remain
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o 5J o s TD • C J ro >. C X) U- J u_ O O V 03 ^ ^ 5 FERNANDO PO 247 quietly in Herr Moritz hospitable house until thearrival of the steamer. In the end, however, I yieldedto my annoyance at being beaten by the Peak afterclimbing so many other African mountains, and tomy anxiety not to enable the Spaniards to gloat overour ineffectual attempts. I soon packed up a fewnecessaries, and succeeded in inducing Herr KruUto accompany me. The path being already made, we could plan outour daily stages beforehand. The first day we climbedas far as the corrugated iron hut, and the second toa bush-hut constructed by Schultzes men withbranches and twigs, at an altitude of 6000 feet. Wewere tormented in our tents by a swarm of wild bees ;they did not sting much, but were intolerably per-sistent. They covered the ground that had beencleared for our tents; they attacked our boots and ourfood ; they buzzed in our faces, and everything thatwe touched had a bee reposing on it. Some of themclung toget

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