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Title: In wildest Africa : the record of a hunting and exploration trip through Uganda, Victoria Nyanza, the Kilimanjaro region and British East Africa, with an account of an ascent of the snowfields of Mount Kibo, in East Central Africa, and a description of the various native tribes
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: MacQueen, Peter, 1865-1924
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Publisher: London : George Ball and sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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we met many of the simple people moving back and forth from one farm to another, carrying bunches of bananas or stalks of sugar cane. The streams we crossed were all cold and pure, running from the melting ice ofthe great white crown of Kibo. At one of these streams I came across a party of men of the Wachaga tribe, under the direction of a young German engineer, building a bridge, and this suggested to me the fine possibilities the Germans are developing in the Moschi district. By many winding paths, along the edge of sounding streams, across deep ravines and through umbrageous forests, we made our way until at nightfall we descended from the higher slopes down to the village of Moschi, three thousand eight hundred feet above the Indian Ocean. Moschi is a fort of the German colony. Commissioner Zencke was in charge of the civil department, and Sergt. Major Bast was in charge of the soldiery. There were about two hundred native soldiers or ascaris in the command. Herr Wolfe was the Municipal Secre-
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The Province of Moschi 187 tary, and these three men treated us with great cordiality. We camped a quarter of a mile outside the town on a high platform of the hills, near the kraal of one of the native kings, Sulima. At Moschi there is a good hotel, kept by a Greek,named Papyanos. Here we met each night the German officers, and any of the white men who came in from time to time from the plantations of the province. We learned from them that Moschiis a fertile province, three hundred miles long, and one hundred and fifty miles wide, and that all its fertility comes from the melting snow of Kilimanjaro. When the Germans made a treaty with England in 1890, the Kaiser insisted upon Germany being given the whole Kilimanjaro region. It was one of the great diplomatic successes of Germany; for the colony promises to be one of the richest and most fruitful of all the German territory in Africa. A railway is being built from Tanga on the coast to Moschi, at the foot of Kilimanjaro. The whole distance i

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