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the best way to conduct an African expedition is not to throw 

 it up as soon as difficulties occur, and to leave one's own 

 responsibilities to others. So I looked back to the past with 

 gratitude for the one lesson, and to the future with hope. 

 For I felt that if the Zanzibari proverb be true — 



" Kupotea njia, njiko kujue njia " 

 (To lose the way, that is the way to know the way) — 



then, having lost the way under the guidance of another, I had 

 learnt the first lesson in the art of finding the way for myself 



