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The new Africa : a journey up the Chobe and down the Okovanga rivers : a record of exploration and sport (1897)

Schulz, Aurel, Hammar, August, Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI · London : W. Heinemann · leaf 119

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MOPANI FOREST 95 exasperating manner. We also passed through a fine open Mopani forest. Of course, there were neither footpaths nor roads to guide our course, so we simply had to force our way through everything that we met. After crossing we soon came … MOPANI FOREST to a flat, quite half a mile wide, covered with clear water standing about a foot deep, through which we waded to the bush-grown sand belts skirting the open before us, Almost as soon as we reached dry land beyond this water we saw a troop of hartebeest staring at us from about 150…

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