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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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The officers at Kusseri, especially the ImperialResident, First Lieutenant von Raben, were exceed-ingly kind to us, so that the days spent here helpedus to recover from the fatigues and hardships of thelast few months. As we had still a few days to sparebefore setting out on our travels once more, the Dukewent on a short hunting expedition in the neighbour-hood, which he describes in his diary as follows :— As there were still two days before Christmas, Idecided to go hunting in the country south of Kusseri,near the Shari. First Lieutenant von Raben was kind enough to actas our guide, and Sergeant-Major Seifert was the thirdmember of the party. Early on the 23rd we set out, andfor four hours travelled up the Shari in a large nativeboat, whose huge prow resembled that of a vikingsgalley. Our progress was at first much hindered bya strong head wind, but presently we entered a creekwhere we were completely sheltered, and which teemedwith life. Flocks of every kind of water-fowl, ducks,
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35 FORT LAMY AND KUSSERI 53 water-hens, gulls, several varieties of beautiful herons,amongst them the white feathered heron, ibises, cor-morants, etc., swam and fluttered around. Snake-neck birds (darters) in large numbers sunned them-selves on the branches of the trees in their character-istic attitude, with outstretched wings, and allowedus to approach within a few steps. But we did notdisturb them, having nobler quarry in view. Wewere especially anxious to come across the rhinoceros,that representative of a by-gone age who has escapeddestruction. There are few people who can boastof having shot a rhinoceros in the North Cameroons,and this fact made me all the keener. An hour later we left the boat and followed a pathwhich brought us in about two hours to our destina-tion : the little Shoa village of Tukura, surroundedby dense bush chiefly composed of gum-arabic acaciaswith golden blossom. It is in the very thickestpart of the bush, where the hunter can see scarcelytwenty yards ahea

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