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AFTER an absence of nearly eight months I have arrived here once more, considerably reduced in bulk in consequence of the privations and fatigues which I have had to undergo, but otherwise thoroughly well and active. A poultry yard and a milch cow, which I intend to provide myself with, will, in addition to a few weeks' rest, restore my lost strength completely. The journey to the Niam-Niam country, which I undertook as the guest of my friend, Mohammed Abu Tsammat, with his ivory caravan of 300 men, and whose acquaintance I made during the river journey, was successfully completed, as we had no losses to deplore, except a few female slaves who were taken away whilst fetching water; and besides the wounding of the leader, Mohammed, only one of my people was injured by an arrow, which struck him in the arm, but fortunately the wound was speedily healed.
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SCHWEINFURTH, G. Letters From Central Africa * . Nature 3, 215–216 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/003215a0
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