34 MY AFRICAN EXPEDITION. 



from the coast, and the space at my command will not permit me to give in detail 

 the adventures of my friends on their way thither. Mr. Godkin, Bob Marshall and 

 Dick Brownell kept full journals of their doings, from which 1 have been enabled to 

 write this history. Had I left that work to any one of the three individuals, his 

 modesty would have prevented him appropriating full credit for his own exploits; 

 but, possessing, as I do, the narrative of all, and, intimately acquainted, as I am, with 

 the excellences of each, I am quite sure I have placed the credit where it properly 

 belongs. 



Then, too, it must be borne in mind that many portions of Natal, the Orange 

 Free State and the Transvaal Republic have been settled and developed to such an 

 astonishing degree during the last few years that the laborious journey of our friends 

 lacked the stirring features which awaited them further in the Dark Continent 



