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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
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g in torrents, but I soon made out the loweropening in the rock. The chimney was full of bats,of wliich I killed seven at one shot. By the hght oftwo lanterns we began the ascent, and after ten minuteshard climbing we reached the top. The passage wasunpleasant rather than dangerous, and my clothessuffered so severely from the bat guano that I musthave looked as if I had been bathing in a bog. In most unfavourable weather we continued our^journey the same day. The road was converted intoa brick-red coloured pond, the soil being so imperviousthat the rain could not penetrate. The rain-cloudshung about the mountain tops, and broke at shortintervals in heavy showers. I therefore made up raymind to spend the night in the little village of Asen,our last encampment before reaching Sangmelima. The sun was shining when we set of? the next morningin the direction of Sangmelima, but the atmospherewas so oppressive that I felt sure the rainy seasonwas not yet at an end. After marching for several
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176. Bule woman Menge from Bitje,

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