6 AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 



Following Speke and Grant we have a host of explorers 

 entering equatorial Africa successively down to the present 

 time. Doctor Georg Schweinfurth, a German botanist and 

 anthropologist, followed in the footsteps of Heuglin in the 

 Bahr-el-Ghazal region during 1863 to 1871. He described 

 the region and its inhabitants and added a list of the mam- 

 mals observed; but his efforts were chiefly devoted to the 

 botany of the region. Another German, Baron von der 

 Decken, ascended Kilimanjaro in 1862 to an altitude of 

 ten thousand five hundred feet. 



In 1875 Stanley first appeared in Uganda as an explorer. 

 By following Speke and Grant's old route from the East 

 Coast through German East Africa he reached the southern 

 shores of the Victoria Nyanza. His explorations were then 

 devoted to a circumnavigation of the lake and the mapping 

 of its shore-line, which gave to the world the first accurate 

 account of the lake and its approximate extent. After 

 finishing this task he continued on through Uganda and 

 explored the Albert Nyanza and the region southward to 

 Lake Tanganyika. Uganda was again visited by him in 

 1888 by way of the Congo on the relief to Emin Pasha. No 

 natural-history data, however, were gathered by Stanley, 

 whose work was chiefly geographical and political. 



One of the most famous of, at all events the most unique 

 figure among, African explorers, is Emin Pasha or Edward 

 Schnitzer, best known by his Arabic name and title. Emin 

 was an explorer-naturalist of German-Hebrew extraction 

 who entered the upper Nile district in 1876. He displayed 

 remarkable administrative talents, and until 1890 reigned 

 as governor of the Bahr-el-Ghazal Nile and the adjoining 

 districts of the upper Congo, a post to which he was ap- 



