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On the contrary, they immediately joined their brethren, 

 and contributed their quota to the chorus of deafening 

 shouts and yells. 



Making a hammock of a pole and the cotton sheet of 

 one of the men, I was placed in it (by this time almost 

 unconscious), and we started back toward our camp. 

 The savages followed in our rear, hurling defiance, but 

 left us upon our entrance into the forest. After five 

 hours' marching we reached camp, and I was at once 

 put to bed. 



The people upon the mountains we learned were 

 called Embe. Judging from the appearance of their 

 clearings in the forest and their plantations, they are 

 industrious and have a fair knowledge of agriculture. 

 They grow beans, cassava, bananas, a little millet, and 

 Indian corn. We saw no large cattle, but many flocks 

 of sheep and goats. The portion of the range to which 

 we paid this brief visit seemed very thickly inhabited. 



For the following three days I suffered continually 

 from fever — much of the time being unconscious. Dur- 

 ing these three days Lieutenant von Hohnel was not 

 idle. Accompanied by our newly found guide, he paid 

 a visit to an extinct crater called Kora, distant ten miles 

 to the north of our camp, from the summit of which he 

 got a good view of the country along which our route 

 for a few succeeding days would lie. 



Our guide's name was Motio. His was one of the 

 most original and curious characters I have ever met 

 with among the natives. Although he remained with 

 us nearly a year, we could never get a clear story of 

 his past. His teeth were filed to a point, and this fact, 

 together with some of his statements, led us to believe 



