THROUGH JUNGLE AND DESERT
CH A P T E R I
T h e journey the description of which will be found
in the following pages was one planned and undertaken
by me in cooperation with Lieutenant von Hohnel,
for the purpose of adding something to the world’s
knowledge of that portion ' of East Africa hitherto
unexplored, lying between the Tana and Juba rivers.
Lieutenant von Hohnel, my companion upon this
journey, is an officer in the Imperial and Royal Austro-
Hungarian Navy. In the year 1888 he accompanied
Count Teleki, an Hungarian nobleman, upon an expedition
into East Africa, which lasted nearly two years,
as a result of which much was added to the scientific
knowledge of this portion of that continent, especially
by the discovery of the great lakes Rudolph and
Stephanie. The wonderfully exact map made by Lieutenant
von Hohnel attracted the attention of all geographers
to his wo rk; and the book descriptive of
that journey added greatly to his fame, and conveyed
a vast amount of new and interesting information.
My journey was undertaken purely in the interest
of science, and, such being the case, I esteemed myself
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