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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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rounded by a stockade. We sawgoats and sheep wandering about at liberty, but thecattle were kept in small underground stone huts.They were entirely excluded from the world, andreceived their food through a small hole just largeenough to admit a man, so that the poor creaturesspent their days in darkness until at last they werekilled and brought out piecemeal. I could find nosufficient reason for this barbarous custom, theexcuse given being that hostile neighbours mightdrive off the cattle, if the animals were allowed torun loose. The natives struck me as being a poverty-strickenrace, laboriously extracting a scanty livelihood fromthe ground. After making some sketches I bought a few imple-ments and utensils, weapons, military ornaments,fetishes, etc., but the people were not at all anxiousto part with their possessions. Then as we had beenrepeatedly warned not to penetrate further into themountains, we set off on the return journey toMora. There were robber bands among the inhabitants
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