Identifier: fromcongotoniger02adoluoft (find matches)
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

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
i:hing thatfell into this abyss would be irretrievably lost. Afew of them, however, walked over the slippery bridge^^dth the utmost unconcern. After crossing the Niete, we were once more in aregion which had once been cultivated, as evidencedby the presence of a formidable aframomum thicket.The largest forest regions now lay behind us. Inone respect this was unfortunate, for one of myprincipal reasons in selecting this route to the coastwas in order to make the acquaintance of the Bagiellidwarfs, whose language I was anxious to comparewith that of the other dwarfs that I had met. I had made numerous inquiries, and Kukuma ofAngali had assured me that there were no Bagiellisleft in liis district, as they had all migrated nearer
Text Appearing After Image:
MARCHING FROM EBOLOWA 221 the coast. Later on I learned accidentally that theAngali chieftain was the only man who could havemet my wishes in the matter of the dwarfs, as hordesof Pygmies were at that very time hunting elephantsfor him in the neighbourhood of his village. I happened to meet another cliief on the road toKiibi, who informed me that a friend of his, livingin the next large Bule village, had just bought aBagielli wife, these women being much sought afteras wives, as their children are very strong and healthy. After making many inquiries I succeeded in find-ing this woman in the village of Anjok, and inducedher to pay me a visit in my tent. She certainly dis-played none of the shyness of her race. A fewquestions satisfied me that she knew not a word ofthe pygmy language, and the same thing applied toother representatives of tliis tribe whom I met a fewdays later in Kribi. The villagers, too, assured methat the Bagiellis of the coast spoke only the languageof the surroundin

Note About Images