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S After all, for me a small variety of things is covered with snake skin. Furthermore, I have bows, arrows, quiver after strenuous hunting. Also the European gradually becomes modest in this loneliness. The hour before going to sleep in my lying and spear in rich selection. I don't want to miss handballs in front of the tent. Maierically the appearance of a monkey's bow is poured over, inside it is fed with moss; they bind them around the wrist campfire the small, supple figures; I can do it to the brown one, in order to avoid that by the speeding down of the bowstring when shooting languishing faces of the girls, with which passion it is hurt. The arcs are partly covered with wide-knocked iron wire or are devoted to these monotonous dance movements. — It is a wild romantic with the reddish tails of a sea cat species. The tendons are pictured in sultry tropical night, especially when the moon is just its silver mostly made from very firm plant fibers. Arrows they use three rays ar- urch the tree crowns squeezed, and thousands of cicadas with their different species. For smaller game and especially for birds they have arrows gezirpe to fill the air. How happy and satisfied are these people with hardwood tips, for larger wild iron tips in many different for- their undemandingness, there are probably in our rushes and drives covered and provided with numerous barbs. The poison arrows have likewise in time something similar in the Nordic homeland? Hardwood tips, which, however, are immersed in some toxic liquid or smeared with it. The tips of these arrows are carefully wrapped with leaves, before I started my trip to these African areas, I had one that were only taken off shortly before use, to avoid injuries on the way longer meeting with the old Cart Hagenbeck, the senior of the world. However, the most valuable for me are two broad belts from Okapi- known animal company in Hamburg. When I told the old man that I was in fur. Unfortunately, I have not been able to get a whole fur, go the innermost of Central Africa to study the life and activity of the dwarf peoples there, the first thing he said was: "Try to find out some of these or even just where I have to go to these animals. The Pygmy pygmies, it would be an event of great importance." At that time only know that once in a while a great antelope, of which the pieces of Felice I said easily, "Why not, I will gladly try." — I also come, gets into one of their pits; they themselves have apparently not yet thought this to be so impossible, because I had no one in Samio, because they say that this animal would never be seen. To help put together the Samoaner's claim force, which came happily to Europe. I can't get rid of these dwarves either by tempting gifts Today, however, where I sit in a jungle village of these dwarfs and irritate them somewhat to catch such an animal for me, at least more pits for it have been better known, I know that it is completely impossible to even put on. You also say that it has been a long time since they brought a single Pygmä with them to Germany. These dwarfs would have caught such an animal, and that perhaps there is no further. One can not survive such a temporary transplant at all. Their homeland with these dwarfs just not talk rationally. There are still the dark forests in these forests, even the bright sun, and the rough climate in some other almost as rare animals. This includes especially the bongo, a north they would not be able to bear. Moreover, none of them would be antelope of the size of a cow. Furthermore, there is a kind of giant pig, going with me in good will, one could not explain to them in any way, that is only in the densest forests, but all these animals are what it is, and the fear of an inevitable captivity extremely shy and because of the impenetrable thicket not to be fancied. And how did these dwarves feel on the road and in Europe When only one of the great roads will lead through these forests and feed larger ones, because even every day only meat would not get them well. Villages with free areas in the area will be created, then they will lack the herbs and berries of their forest, the insects and what will it certainly be possible to lay such rare animals with to them dearly used to their life, When I later exploit myself in Irumu once, but at the moment I do not see any possibility here, let also the traces chat with a Belgian official on this topic, told me, not to follow on the overgrown ground. The eternal uniqueness of the fact that even his government would not give any permission to bring the dwarf vegetation, in addition the small hunting opportunity on larger game, brings with it the out of the country. So, as much as I like Mr Hagenbeck with a time a great fatigue with him. You get tired of always being surprised in these dark, few pygmies, but this must remain a pious desire. To wander wet forests without being able to record hunting successes. Man longs for the sunlight, out into the free steppe. As long as I camp near Akwebadus Villages, already of the I still unknown insects or birds have come, or interesting counter-times foreign pygmies come; it turns out that in the vicinity stood of the Pygmy could infascinate, I noticed the monotony still a whole number of Wambutizwerge around nomadize and temporarily not so bad. But now my activity here is soon to come to an end. In addition, small villages bewail. Also these hitherto unknown people come to me that my collections have already accepted such a scope, that not hostilely meet, they have of course long ago exactly about me - I soon no longer have any bearers for it, all loads are already informed under commitment. They have also learned that I have greatly increased their weapons, signal horns, an extra remuneration. My supplies of salt and amulets and what else they have in ethnographic things, exchange for tobacco, which are the best exchange articles here, are tending to decline. And salt, tobacco, glass beads, small knives and Kanicki, a blue nettle, which at last it is high time that I came to Irumu, in order to me my hunting in the Congo is partly considered as a means of payment, and which is not completely unknown to the dwarfs as a result. In the course of the few weeks I now seem to have to fetch, because what I have seen and felt here about elephant rides or occasionally already a quite respectable collection of ethnographic objects gathering elephants, ridicules every description. The hunt for these pachyderms, however, I want to spore up to open ground, get men, among them over a dozen beautiful, large ivorys - because behind Irumu I have to trumpet after the earlier inquiries. Some of them show skillful engravings, others come to the bright Wold. 40 41