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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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</) 3 I CO .J, 03C 3 CO 1 FORT LAMY AND KUSSERI 55 although her big blue eyes gazed contentedly on theworld in general. Miss MacLeod had been engaged to the Englishexplorer Boyd Alexander, who was murdered earlyin 1910. Accompanied by an English lady and herhusband, she had come to the Tchad district in orderto visit the place in Wadai, where her fiance had fallena victim to the savage Massalits. Owing to the politi-cal unrest in these parts, she had been forced to stopat Lamy, and could go only as far as the Englishstation, Maidugeri, in Northern Nigeria, where thebody of the explorer had been laid to rest beside hisbrother, Captain Alexander. Whilst waiting for the steamer, I spent the timesight-seeing in Fort Lamy. I was especially interestedin watching the games of the Bornu riders, who dis-played their skill in a large open space in front of thetown. In threes and fours, they rushed up at fullgallop, suddenly dragging their horses round whenonly about ten yards away from us. T

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