From the Congo to the Niger and the Nile : an account of The German Central African expedition of 1910-1911 . pleasant recollectionsof my visit to Peum, where I spent many happy hoursamongst the merry cliildren of Nature. On the even-ing that preceded my departure my tent was filledwith natives—men, women, and children—all anxious tosee the jihotographs that I had taken of them. Whenthey had made out the figures of the photographs,and recognised a familiar face, they went into fits oflaughter, as if it were a great joke, and my tent resoundedwith Oils and Ahs of amazement. No displayof my phot
From the Congo to the Niger and the Nile : an account of The German Central African expedition of 1910-1911 . pleasant recollectionsof my visit to Peum, where I spent many happy hoursamongst the merry cliildren of Nature. On the even-ing that preceded my departure my tent was filledwith natives—men, women, and children—all anxious tosee the jihotographs that I had taken of them. Whenthey had made out the figures of the photographs,and recognised a familiar face, they went into fits oflaughter, as if it were a great joke, and my tent resoundedwith Oils and Ahs of amazement. No displayof my photographs has ever in all my Ufe received suchan enthusiastic reception as by these simple people. I would willingly have stayed longer in this charmingvillage, but here, as in many other places in the courseof my travels, the difficulties of feeding my bearersforced me to push on. On the morning of the 14thof March my bearers, who in the meantime had carriedMildbraeds baggage one stage further, took up myloads, and scrambled down the steep incline to theLokomo River. W^e crossed the bridge, consisting. 124. Bangandu village.
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