Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo13amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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large and heavy sup- plies through the country of the Cher- ingani. This country has forests unusual for East x\frica. The altitude ranges from a little over 4000 feet above sea level in some of the lower parts to 10,500 feet where dense wood- lands cover the sum- mits of the hills. Im- passible ravines and deep swamp-edged narrow streams were met with evervwhere
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One-year-old lion and made necessary considerable digging and rough bridging and road-making. Our usual method of transportation was by ox team. Sometimes as many as thirty-two oxen were put in the iron chain that hauled our wagon. Almost two tons of fine salt were necessary for the preparation of the skins. A large tent in which many men could work on the skins had to be carried; also a great weight of posho, the natives' food of ground meal. Our consumption of this was about two hun- dred pounds each day. Posho, as all well know who have left civilization far be- hind in African lands, is the cause of the chief difficulty of all explorers. It may be impossible to pro- cure, once off the main lines of travel, and must be had not at intervals but al- ways. The breaking up and ruin of expedi- tions is often due to

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