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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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163. Banda women of the Togbo tribe.
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164. Danziri woman at the hair-dressers. FURTHER EAST 183 able roads. I was fully alive to all these obstacles.But as one of the principal objects of the expeditionwas to explore the three great sultanates of the Mbomudistrict, I resolved to adhere to my programme. Atthe same time I was sorry to be deprived of Schubotzcompany, especially as I had been obliged to partwith Sergeant-Major Roder. Since the famous, but disastrous military expedi-tion of Commandant Marchand to Fashoda, no ex-plorer, or at any rate no scientific explorer, hadvisited the country through which I now proposedto travel. So with the Nile for my goal, I set offeastwards with a light heart. Knowing that, in face of the transport difficulties,my baggage would prove the greatest hindrance tomy progress, I decided to take as little as possible,and to leave the remainder at Possel. My caravanwas composed of a Bornu cook, two Suaheli boys who had been with me during my previous Africantravels, two natives of Jaunde who

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