NYl'MBA YA MA\VK, AN ISOLATED CRYSTALLINE IJLOCK OK 

 SCHIST-ROCK NEAR 'I H E RUKU RIVER 



APPENDIX A 



A Few Words about Herr C. G. Schillings' 

 Collection of East African Mammals 



BY 



PROFESSOR PAUL MATSCH1E 



Curator of the Roval Zoological Museum, Berlin 



AMONG those who have lived or who are now living, 

 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 of 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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