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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
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the conclusion of his work in British Nigeria. His brother. Captain Claud Alexander, died of dysentery in the neighbourhood of Lake Tchad, and Captain C. B. (Josling, * one of the best and bravest fellows that ever lived (he was thus described in his obituary notice) reached the Uelle with Boyd Alexander. He was one of the finest sportsmen in England, physically well developed, and admirably adapted for enduring the fatigues of African travel. His great ambition was to shoot an okapi and add it to his collection of African big game. Near Angu he hunted for a fortnight, regardless of his health, but without success. He carried away the germs of blackwater fever, and fell ill soon after leaving Angu. His vigorous constitution carried him through the first attack, but two weeks later he succumbed to the fever at Niangara, and was buried in the cemetery there. Boyd Alexander alone, having surmounted incredible difficulties, exhausted and broken down in health, reached his goal, the Miite Nile. But he
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