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THE KILIMA-NJAR 0 EXPEDITION\ 
Kilima-njaro in times of peace before the Arab traders 
and the slave trade had brought the curse of inter¬ 
necine war to the industrious and thrifty agriculturists 
who inhabited the fertile mountain-slopes. He con¬ 
sequently wandered about freely, through most of the 
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little Caga 3 states, with a small following of some ten 
porters and but little baggage. On his return to the 
coast he communicated his discovery to Krapf, who 
shortly afterwards started himself for the interior, 
and discovered Mount Kenia, but only saw Kilima¬ 
njaro from a distance of forty miles. The results of 
these two remarkable expeditions were modestly made 
known to the geographical societies of Europe, but in 
Paris alone did the discovery of Kenia and Kilima¬ 
njaro meet with any practical recognition. The silver 
medal of the Geographical Society in that city was 
awarded to Messrs. Krapf and Kebmann, for making 
known the existence of snow-clad mountains in 
Eastern Equatorial Africa. 
In England the missionaries’ information was 
greatly discredited, because they had not been able 
to map out their journeys by observations for latitude 
and longitude, and could only fix the position of the 
mountains, of which they alleged the existence, by 
dead reckoning. As a matter of fact, they placed 
them with wonderful accuracy, considering the rough 
methods employed, and subsequent discoveries have 
corroborated their statements. Krapf only saw Mount 
Kenia from a distance of over forty miles, and Keb¬ 
mann probably approached no nearer than fifteen 
miles to the snows of Kilima-njaro. Both could only 
3 Caga (which is pronounced Chaga) is the native name for the 
inhabited belt, between 3000 and 7000 feet, stretching round the 
mountain. 
