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THE LITTLE ARAB DHOWS WHICH BROUGHT US TO ZANZIBAR 



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 To Kilimanjaro with Prince Lowenstein 



1^ H E mail-steamer Biirgermeister brought us to Tanga 

 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 for Germany's highest 

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

 Kilimanjaro. 



Prince Johannes Lowenstein-Rosenberg and I had 

 taken seven mules on board at Naples in the expectation 

 that these wiry beasts, accustomed in Southern Italy to- 

 every kind of hardship, would be admirably fitted for our 

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

 mules unfortunately got the Acarus mange on the way. 

 A dog a " Great Dane " which had been despatched 

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

 and which had been inoculated experimentally against 

 infection by the tsetse-fly, 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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