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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
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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urate record of the characteristics of all the watercourses that I encountered. I was thus able to establish the fact that they altered their character shortly before I reached Ebolowa, that is to say, long after I had passed out of the water basin of the Congo. After crossing the Libi for the first time, I left the main road, and turned aside into the path leading towards Bitje. I was disappointed to find that this path led through a district that had formerly been cultivated; within a days march of Bitje, however, I entered a large Macrolobium forest, such as I had not seen since leaving Bangandu. But the hopes thus conjured up with regard to the surroundings of Bitje were doomed to disappointment, for this famous spot lies in the midst of the most uninteresting agricultural district imaginable. Mr Bates, who owns an extensive rubber plantation, near Bitje, was in America at the time of my visit, so that I was obliged to obtain my information elsewhere. I had not long to wait, for soon after my
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3 3 •= ^ a o s -rr u j: o .2. oQ ■ o ASSOBAM TO EBOLOWA 185 arrival I was visited by some of the village boys, to whose collecting zeal the discovery of many botanical treasures is due. The twelve-year-old son of the chief, in particular, the American collectors invaluable assistant, was indefatigable in answering my questions. From him I learned that the time of year was not now favourable, but that most of the rare specimens liad been found in a small wood close to the village. This wood, however, seemed in no way to differ from hundreds that I had already traversed during my journey thither. Although Bitje by no means fulfilled my hopes as a collecting centre, it afforded me a far deeper insight into the manners and customs of the Bules than any of the villages through which I had passed. In a neighbouring hamlet I was initiated into a curious religious ceremony of the Bules, adopted, so I was informed, from the Pangwes, and designated by the name of Sso. I observed at the side of the road a t

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