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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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1. Old Mandja woman.
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2. Mandja mother and children. SETTING OUT ON OUR TRAVELS 17 The accident occurred in the following manner:Captain Gaudin went down to the engine-room andangrily told the engineer that the ship was not steamingfast enough. Dazed by the heat of the stoke-hold,in passing the boiler as he returned on deck, he musthave stumbled and fallen overboard. This is all themore probable because just here there was no balustrade,and the deck level was only about four inches abovethe water-line. Probably Gaudin then fell underneaththe vessel, her draught being only about twenty inches,and was knocked on the head by the paddle-wheel,stunned, and carried away by the force of the current.The breadth of the river being here nearly a mile and ahalf, it would not be an easy matter even for a strongman to swim ashore. It was in a very depressed frame of mind that wewent back about ten miles in order to thoroughlysearch all the islands, as well as the banks. We wishedat least to bury the body, but all our e

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