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LOSS OF DR STEIN HA E U SEE. 



could not make Zanzibar in time. The journey 

 through the North-eastern horn of Africa would 

 alone have given a title to Eame. Its danger 

 and difficulty were subsequently proved (October 

 2, 1865) by the wounding of Baron Theodore von 

 Heughlin and by the murder of Baron von der 

 Decken, Dr Link, and others of his party. 1 



The absence of Dr Steinhaeuser lost the East 

 African Expedition more than can be succinctly 

 told. A favourite with 6 natives ' wherever he 

 went, a tried traveller, a man of literary tastes 

 and of extensive reading, and better still, a spirit 

 as staunch and determined as ever attempted 

 desperate enterprise, — he would doubtless have 

 materially furthered our views, and in all human 

 probability Lieut. Speke would have escaped 

 deafness and fever-blight, I paralysis and its con- 

 sequent invalidism. We afterwards wandered 

 together over the United States, and it is my 

 comfort, now that he also is gone, to think that 

 no unkind thought, much less an unfriendly 

 word, ever broke our fair companionship. His 



1 Proceedings Royal Geographical Society, May 5, 1866. 

 The lamented travellers' notes have now (1869 — 70) being pub- 

 lished under the title of ' Baron Carl Claus von der Decken's 

 Eeisen in Ost-Afrika in den Jahren 1859 bis 1861. Bearbeitet 

 von Otto Kersten (who accompanied the first expedition). 

 London. Asher.' 



