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canvassed, and criticized with infinite freedom 

 and fnlness. From this place I was to proceed to 

 Macloutsie, and from thence to Pahipye, where 

 resides Khama, the redoubtable Bechuana chief. 

 From Palapye a few days' drive Avould bring me 

 through Mafeking to Yryburgh, where waggons, 

 tents, " boys," naked savages, will be all forsaken 

 for comfortable railway carriages, civilized hotels, 

 daily newspapers, and other similar inestimable 

 blessings which the traveller in wild parts of the 

 earth gets on so well without, and yet is always 

 for a time glad to return to. 



