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for a similar group. The total results by February 1913 speak for 

 themselves: 3227 mammals, 2244 reptiles and batrachians, 4488 birds, 

 1606 fishes, 40,000 invertebrates, and an ethnographical collection of 

 1900 items. 



"From then on, the problem of transportation became our chief 

 concern. Over two hundred loads were stored in Medje, the same num- 

 ber in Niangara, besides specimens for several hundred more in Avakubi. 

 In Faradje alone over six hundred loads awaited removal to Stanleyville, 

 the nearest shipping center, by a sixty-five days' march, more than half 

 of which led through dense forest; river transit was out of the question 

 since native dugouts could not be used for objects affected by water. 

 Restrictive measures connected with sleeping sickness had closed the 

 Nile route and the precarious condition of communication in the north- 

 eastern Uele made it necessary for the expedition to "fashion from the 

 raw material everything needed for packing purposes. Trees were cut, 

 planks sawed, iron ore reduced, nails hammered, and ropes twisted, 

 since the collections could be transferred with safety only when care- 

 fully packed in boxes or other well-made parcels. Furthermore, the work 

 was necessarily slow, as the natives recruited in this region would not 

 carry for more than six days, and in the forest only a couple of days, 

 before returning to their respective villages, so that during five years' 

 field work over 38,000 porters were engaged by the Congo Expedition. 

 Then, too, caravans exceeding one hundred porters would have met with 

 difficulties, especially in obtaining provisions. 



"Under these circumstances Mr. Chapin chose to supervise the 

 transportation of all collections to Stanleyville and we both left Faradje 

 on February 19, 1913, he taking the direct road to Dungu, while I 

 passed northward to Yakuluku and Bafuka, gathering during the nex + 

 four months a valuable series of the rare Bongo as well as other material 

 that increased the importance of our data on distribution. In the mean- 

 time, two hundred loads had been removed from Niangara, where I 

 joined Mr. Chapin for a week, and on the first of July we parted com- 

 pany at Rungu for the next thirteen months, during which he directed 

 the transfer of nearly 1200 loads to Stanleyville, meanwhile adding to the 

 collections. I proceeded to Nala, Poko, and southward to Niapu, and 

 secured many desiderata, chief among which were series of rare forest 

 mammals. Certain gaps in the study of the Okapi were also filled in, 

 and a calf, intended for the New York Zoological Society, was captured 

 alive, but unfortunately succumbed later, owing to the lack of proper 

 food. I forwarded the new collections together with those which had 



