THE " STONKllULSE '■ NVrMHA YA MAWK, AN ISOI.ATKI) CRYSTALLINE IILOCK OF 

 SCHIST-KOCK NEAR THE RUFU RIYER 



APPENDIX A 



A Few Words about Herr C, G. Schillings' 

 Collection of East African Mammals 



BY 



PROFESSOR PAUL MATSCHIE 



CiiriUor of Ike k'uval '/.oological Miisc/nii, Hcr/i/i 



AMONG those who have lived or who are now hving, 

 in the German East African colony, there are 

 a good many who are convinced that the gradual thinning 

 of the wild life out there is the outcome principally of 

 the expeditions of sportsmen and of collectors of natural- 

 history specimens. They have heard of the immense 

 quantities ot antelope hides and horns which travellers 

 of this class have amassed, and in all good faith they 

 give expression to their astonishment that such people 

 should be tolerated. 



Thus it has been with C. G. Schillings, because he 

 has ventured to make his way from the interior to the 



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