A\'ith Fhi^lili-ht and Rifle ^ 



■according to the surmise of Professor Reichenow. And 

 to give another, I may point out that as yet no success 

 has been met with in the efforts to cope with the rinder- 

 pest. For Germans there is a wide field for labour in 

 Africa — a field which, with more experience, we shall learn 

 to cultivate better. 



No one is in a better position to realise this than 

 the wanderer who has spent years in the wilderness, 

 striving strenuously to wring from velt and marsh 

 and forest the secrets they have withheld from mortal 

 eyes. 



It we are to explore these regions and save their 

 treasures for posterity, we must make haste ; tor many 

 races of nati\-es with their ancient habits aaid customs, 

 and with them the animal lite, are dying away under the 

 breath of civilisation all too speedily. 



Here I am moved to speak again of my trusty 

 followers, who shared mv sufteTinQ;s and mv delio-hts so 

 many thousands ot times. Hardly a single one of them 

 •did I ever find not eager at any time to set out with me 

 on a new expedition into the interior, and in most of them 

 J had devoted and grateful servants, 



I must give a thought to those also who lost their life 

 in my service, and whose bones now lie bleaching beneath 

 the equatorial sun. 



The years I spent out there come back to my memory 

 as years ot interest, happiness, and enjoyment, drawing 

 ■out all m)- powers to the utmost. The velt lies out- 

 stretched before me — now tiooded w-ith sunlight, now 

 bathed in the mystical radiance of the moon — alive with 



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