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Hostile Force; 



rebel, as I had occasion to prove in most painful tashion 

 in the year 1902. 



To the hindrances and fatigues which have been 

 here touched upon, there may be added what is perhaps 

 the orreatest of them all, the want of water — a bitter want, 

 from which the European will suffer over and over again. 

 Elsewhere I have described in detail the pangs of thirst, 



MY TAME BABOON RIDING ONE OF MY BEST MULES 



and said that these can scarcely be realised at all by 

 Northerners, to whom water is a mere matter of course. 

 , One finds that the most widespread and multifarious 

 fallacies prevail about travels in the more or less unexplored 

 parts of Africa. Even in the days of complete ignorance 

 about this country it was clearly impossible for its dis- 

 coverers to follow the compass at random into the 

 unknown. If guides were less readily forthcoming, people 



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