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In the Volcanic Region 
metres, and the white frosted meadows in the early morning 
conjured up the vision of a German autumnal landscape. At 
the evening meal we always appeared in thick coats and turned 
up collars, and with steaming glasses of grog in our hands we 
resembled a polar expedition rather than a party of African 
travellers. 
Among other zoological investigations the task which mostly 
engaged our attention was to find and, if possible, to kill an 
anthropomorphous ape. Up till then there had been only one 
species of man-ape known to have been secured from the Kiwu 
district, the one killed by Captain von Beringe on Sabinjo, 
which the Berlin Zoological Museum pronounced a gorilla. It 
was obvious, therefore, that the capturing of further specimens 
would be of high scientific value in settling the question as to 
whether still further species of the anthropomorphous ape existed 
in that part. 
The forests round us consisted mainly of bamboo, which 
may be met with up to an altitude of 3,400 metres. The gorges 
and ravines clothed with foliage and brushwood are the lurking 
places in which that rare and much coveted wild creature, the 
gorilla, makes his lair. It is an extremely difficult matter, and 
occupies a great deal of time, to get to such spots, and entirely 
excludes any other object from our expedition. We did not have 
the good fortune to fall in with the desired prize although we 
found droppings and fresh tracks. 
Farther on we came across many elephant trails, up to 
astonishing heights, and this fact gave reason to suppose that 
we had struck a new species of genuine mountain elephants. 
The natives confirmed our views, assuring us that the elephants 
thereabouts always kept to the mountain slopes and never shifted 
their quarters down to the plains. We tracked them to heights 
of between 2,200 and 3,400 metres. On one excursion to the 
Mgahinga crater we, in fact, espied five of the pachyderms 
crossing a bare part of the forest below us. This troop 
approached our camp in the evening in the full moonlight and 
startled us at our meal. We heard the cracking of the bamboo 
