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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
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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216. Mission: Pico do Fogo in bad<ground.
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ANNOBON 267 a deciduous Anacardacia clothed only with beardedlichen; the first leaf buds appear in October beforethe foliage. This mingling of evergreen and deciduoustrees lends a peculiar character to the forest, but theblossom of both these trees is scanty. There arefew bushes in the underwood ; some scattered fernsgrow between the boulders, mostly as epiphytes, butthere is scarcely any herbaceous undergrowth. Duringthe rainy season everything probably has a fresherappearance, but I doubt whether even then the collectorwould find much to reward his pains. Mine wascertainly but a sorry share. The fauna was even more scanty. The only mam-malia that we encountered were wild, black hogs, rats,and vampire bats, and the only birds were a pretty,brick-red fly-catcher, a grey-green hooded bird(Zosterops), and a small owl; there were, of course, nowater birds. The doves and crested guinea fowlswere probably derived from domesticated ancestors.Schultze, to his great regret, found no butterfli

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