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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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204. Sultan Hetman of Rafai. IN SEMIOS COUNTRY 221 On the 26th of June I at last arrived at Kadjema,which is the residence of the chief Kasimma, orKadjema, one of the sons of Semio Ikpiro. Immedi-ately to the west of Kadjema the Mboku River,coming from the north-east, flows into the Mbomu.It is eight days march from here to Gubere, and four-teen to the Bahr-el-Ghazal frontier, whereas by boatit takes fourteen days to reach Gubere. So I deter-mined to travel by land, and after a brief rest at Kad-jema in order to procure the necessary bearers, I setoff with thirty-five men, and followed the course ofthe Mboku. I now entered the land of the Bassiris, or Seres, who,until a hundred and thirty years ago, inhabited thecountry between the Mboku and Warra Rivers, underindependent chiefs of their own, but who are now sub-ject to the Asandes. Any natives who had not fled intothe bush were very timid, and I found great difficultyin procuring bearers and provisions. The country wassparsely wooded

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