THROUGH JUNGLE AND DESERT 



CHAPTER I 



The journey the description of which will be found 

 in the following pages was one planned and undertaken 

 by me in cooperation with Lieutenant von Hohnel, 

 for the purpose of adding something to the world's 

 knowledge of that portion of East Africa hitherto 

 unexplored, lying between the Tana and Juba rivers. 



Lieutenant von Hohnel, my companion upon this 

 journey, is an officer in the Imperial and Royal Austro- 

 Hungarian Navy. In the year 1888 he accompanied 

 Count Teleki, an Hungarian nobleman, upon an expe- 

 dition into East Africa, which lasted nearly two years, 

 as a result of which much was added to the scientific 

 knowledge of this portion of that continent, especially 

 by the discovery of the great lakes Rudolph and 

 Stephanie. The wonderfully exact map made by Lieu- 

 tenant von Hohnel attracted the attention of all geog- 

 raphers to his work ; and the book descriptive of 

 that journey added greatly to his fame, and conveyed 

 a vast amount of new and interesting information. 



My journey was undertaken purely in the interest 

 of science, and, such being the case, I esteemed myself 



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