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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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had at length solved the problem regardingthe mountains of this intricate neighbourhood. Onetiling was certain : not one of the peaks came any-where near being 6000 feet in height, and I could noteven see one that approached 5000 feet. The highestmountain lay in a north-easterly direction, and itsaltitude was not above 4000 feet. By tliiee oclock I was back in camp, well satisfied\vith the results of my investigations. I set off thefollomng morning in high spirits on the return marchto Sogebafam ; my men, too, were delighted to tliinkthat their hardships were at an end, for, like myself,many of them were reduced to mere skin and bones. From Sogebafam we were to proceed as far as Afanin the direction of the coast, and at tliis point I shouldhave to make up my mind whether to take the roadto Campo and thence along the coast to Kribi, or totravel across country via Ngoen on the Lobe River.The former route was for obvious reasons the moreattractive, but the latter was more promising from
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