From the Congo to the Niger and the Nile : an account of The German Central African expedition of 1910-1911 . 15. Mangbatu village with oil 16. Mangbatu with plaited beard. THE HOME OF THE OKAPI 37 in the company of an educated man. When we saidgood-bye the following morning, we expressed thehope of meeting again some day either in Brusselsor in Berlin. But unfortunately this was not to few days later during the final stage of the voyagefrom Likati, de Labarre was pushed overboard byhis boatmen, and drowned together with his of this kind forcibly impress upon ones mind
From the Congo to the Niger and the Nile : an account of The German Central African expedition of 1910-1911 . 15. Mangbatu village with oil 16. Mangbatu with plaited beard. THE HOME OF THE OKAPI 37 in the company of an educated man. When we saidgood-bye the following morning, we expressed thehope of meeting again some day either in Brusselsor in Berlin. But unfortunately this was not to few days later during the final stage of the voyagefrom Likati, de Labarre was pushed overboard byhis boatmen, and drowned together with his of this kind forcibly impress upon ones mindthe fact that travelhng in this country is after all notas safe as it is at home ! Poor de Labarre ! In an-other five days he would have been on board thesteamer, and he was looking forward so joyfully tohis return to civilisation. A week later another traveller visited Angu:Monsieur de Calonne-Beaufaict, the chief engineerof the railway which is being constructed betweenButa and Bambili. My first impression of him wasnot very favourable. He was dressed in a worn-outhunting coat and an exceedingly shabby hat; hisbeard was long and shaggy, an
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