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had come, where we should have no need for a 

 guide. 



Although this decision had been formed some 

 time previously, it was not the less with sorrowful 

 hearts that we bade farewell to the banks of the 

 Yangtse-kiang. For well we knew that neither 

 nature nor man stood in our way, and that the want 

 of funds was the only obstacle to our reaching the 

 capital of Tibet, 



Horns of the Orongo-Antelope 



