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upon his memory ; his imagination will elevate it to a paradise, 

 and the days spent there, will enroll themselves among the 

 ^very happiest of his life." * 



Mr. Richard Ford (English Traveller and Historical Writer). 



" The pleasures of travelling are cheaply purchased by trifling 

 inconveniences, which may always be much lessened by fore- 

 thought. The expeditions teem with incident, adventure, 

 novelty, and means of obtaining insight into human nature; 

 -and form in after-life a perpetual fund of interesting recollec- 

 tion : All that was charming will then be remembered, and 

 the disagreeable, if not forgotten, will be disarmed of its 

 sting." f 



* The Heart of Africa, by Dr. Georg Schweinfurth, 1874, Vol. i., 

 p. 224. 



j Gatherings from Spain, by Richard Ford, 1846. 



