With Flashlight and Rifle * 



being tabooed for private individuals in a country where 

 the climate is so unfavourable to the European there are 

 many hindrances and difficulties to overcome. A naturalist 

 travelling on his own account encounters almost insuperable 

 obstacles. 



A passport which would have ensured the holder 

 thereof respectful treatment in any other part of the world 

 was of no avail here on German territory to save us from 

 long hours of Customs vexations in the hot rays of a 

 burning sun. I experienced later in the year 1899 a 

 still greater annoyance. 



With infinite trouble I had secretly made my plans 

 to explore on English territory the distant and virgin 

 land Korromoeyo, lying round about Rudolf Lake. I had 

 obtained the permission from the English Government 

 by means of the kind intercession of influential friends ; 

 and I had provided the necessary credentials. Then 

 suddenly, just as I was about to start from Kilimanjaro, 

 the permission, after all my long preparations, was 

 withheld. 



According to rumour, some influential English 

 gentlemen had been refused permission to travel in 

 German East Africa. What wonder, then, that like to 

 like should be repaid ! All my plans were nipped in the 

 bud. 



But, in spite of all, [ would not have missed all these 

 hardships and difficulties ! not even the hours, the days, 

 and the weeks which Dr. Kiinster who had accompanied 

 me on my third expedition as friend and physician 

 and I passed during my illness on the borders of the 



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