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Title: Through unknown African countries; the first expedition from Somaliland to Lake Lamu
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Smith, Arthur Donaldson, 1866-1939 Günther, Albert C. L. G. (Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf), 1830-1914 Simon, Eugène, 1848-1924 Pocock, R. I. (Reginald Innes), 1863-1947 Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932 Gregory, J. W. (John Walter), 1864-1932 Crick, G. C. (George Charles), 1856-1917 Culin, Stewart, 1858-1929 Jordan, Karl, 1861-1959
Subjects: Smith, Arthur Donaldson, 1866-1939 Natural history
Publisher: London, New York : E. Arnold, 1897
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et deep in any part. There areno people living immediately on the lake except at thenorthwest corner, but the mountain range on the westernside is inhabited on its higher slopes by a part of theAmar tribe. The lake is thirty-seven geographical mileslono; and fifteen miles wide. We spent three interesting days on the lake, collectingand surveying. There were many species of birds here,which are distributed throughout Central Africa, but whichI saw now for the first time, including a large black-coloredcuckoo, a yellow-breasted sun-bird, and a gray weaver-birdwhich builds a nest resembling the bowl and stem of a tobacco pipe. The narrow hollow stems hang down about eight inches, and through these the birds have to crawl toreach their nests. On some dead bushes that grew inabout four feet of water there was a community of cormo-rants which had just begun to sit. Dodson and I were too eager for a changfe of food to leave them unmolested,and for a long time we had not been in a country where
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FISHES AND BIRDS — SHOOTING A RHIXOCEROS. 251 there were chickens ; so, rowing out in a boat, we collectedseveral dozen eggs,—enough to supply us with omeletsfor many days, and excellent omelets, too. I may say we lived very well on Lake Stephanie, for besides the cormorants eggs, there were many teal and whistling ducks about the marshes, the latter being very tender, and nearly equal to canvasbacks in flavor; and the lake also abounded in fish. Dr. Albert Giinther foundtwo species of fish new to science in the collection I made on Lake Stephanie. There were many crocodiles and hippopotami in the lake, and they would often comequite near the boat, but they never ventured to attack us. Every evening great flocks of gray starlings with yellow wattles flew north past our camp, and myriads of aquatic birds circled about the lake. The mosquitoes were frightful at night, but a strong wind blowing from the southeast every morning drove them away. On June i, just after starting for the caravan, t

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