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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
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us.91.) No European ever visited it, and rumours fromthe outer world seldom penetrated to this idyllicvalley. But now everything has been changed bythe advent of a new regiment in Wadai, and a con-sequent increase in the white population. Moreover,relay-transports to Athi and Mungo now travel viaMelfi. One day we were nine Europeans, by far thelargest number since the station was founded in 1904. There exists in Melfi an interesting tribe known asYalna, which in Arabic means young people. Itoriginated from six runaway slaves who fifty yearsago sought the protection of the then powerful chief-tain of Melfi. Contrary to the usual custom of send-ing runaway slaves back to their owners, their requestwas granted on condition that they agreed to workwithout payment. They married native women andmultiplied, until to-day they number about 1000, in-habiting three large villages beyond the mountains,and speaking a language of their own. Being ac-customed to all kinds of manual labour, they soon
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