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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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12. Matalani. THE HOME OF THE OKAPI 31 wife, as she was fetching water from the Uelle, wasseized by a crocodile, drowned, and presumablyeaten. Fortunately Koki possessed four wives, sothat the loss was not so great as it would otherwisehave been, but he spent several days in a vain searchfor her body. He was a model of strength and in-telligence, and from early morning until late eveninghe roamed with me all over the country surroundingKoloka. The forest which is the home of the okapi, unlikemany other parts of the equatorial jungle, is almostpathless. Elephant and buffalo tracks provide theonly possible means of deviating from the narrownative foot-paths which connect the isolated villages,and of penetrating into the jungle itself. Fallen tree-trunks, dense underwood with large leaves, thorns,lianas, swamps, and swollen torrents present endlessobstacles. The explorer must bore his way onwards,climbing, crawUng, and often wading neck-deep in water,and all this in a sultry heat which m

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