THE LITTLE ARAB DIIOWS WHICH BROUGHT US TO ZANZIBAR 



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To Kilimanjaro with Prince Lowenstein 



1"^HE mml-sttiiimav J-)//7'or7v//cis/cr broiii^ht us to Tano"a 

 in the first days of February. For the fourth 

 time I set foot upon the East Coast of Africa ; for the 

 third time I set out from it tor Germany's highest 

 mountain, the Qrioantic ice-covered and snow-clad volcano, 

 Kilimanjaro. 



Prince Johannes Lchvenstein-Rosenberg and I had 

 taken seven mules on board at Naples in the expectation 

 that these wirv beasts, accustomed in Southern Italy to 

 every kind of hardship, would be admirably fitted t(^r our 

 riding. The transport was carried out all right, but the 

 mules unfortunately got the Acarus mange on tht; way. 

 A dog — a " Great Dane " — which had been despatched 

 from Hamburg to Dar-es-Salaam tor scientific purposes,, 

 and which had been inoculated experimentally against 

 infection by the tsetse-tiy, had given them the disease. 

 Being familiar with the treatment of this kind of mange, I 

 took the dog in hand when on board ; but, in spite of all 



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