THE LITTLE ARAB D1IO\VS WHICH BROUGHT US TO ZANZIBAR 



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To Kilimanjaro with Prince Lowenstein 



1"^HE mail-steamer Biirgermeister brought us to Tanya 

 in the first clays of February. For the fourth 

 time I set foot upon the Fast Coast of Africa ; for the 

 third time I set out from it tor 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 tor 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 tor 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 ol mange, I 

 took the dog in hand when on board ; but, in spite of all. 



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