From the Congo to the Niger and the Nile : an account of The German Central African expedition of 1910-1911 . ption,amongst them the largest rotangs that I had ever seen ;they formed entire tliickets, and their cables were asthick as a mans ann. (Illus. 184.) The scenery was magnificent in the mountainousMbokum country, which we reached soon after crossinga tributary- of the Ntem, the ^Mwila, wliich is onlythirty feet wide, but fully ten feet deep. In thisdistrict we again saw the jungle in all its luxuriantbeauty. But animal life seemed to be extinct, there wasnot even the chirping of a grass
From the Congo to the Niger and the Nile : an account of The German Central African expedition of 1910-1911 . ption,amongst them the largest rotangs that I had ever seen ;they formed entire tliickets, and their cables were asthick as a mans ann. (Illus. 184.) The scenery was magnificent in the mountainousMbokum country, which we reached soon after crossinga tributary- of the Ntem, the ^Mwila, wliich is onlythirty feet wide, but fully ten feet deep. In thisdistrict we again saw the jungle in all its luxuriantbeauty. But animal life seemed to be extinct, there wasnot even the chirping of a grasshopper to be heard, \and from tliis point onwards I made veiy few additionsto my zoological collection. There was, however, plenty of material for myethnological studies. I pitched my tent in the jungle,and during the two days that I spent there, I wasvisited by Pangwe women from the neighbouringvillages, who, when they had overcome their timidity,offered to sell me their beautifully worked neckletsand anklets. The most interesting curiosities, namely,their elaborately dressed hair, I could not of course. oS
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