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rebel, as I had occasion to prove in most painful fashion 

 in the year 1902. 



To the hindrances and fatigues which have been 

 here touched upon, there; may be added what is perhaps 

 the; greatest ol them all, the want of water a bitter want, 

 from which the European will sutler over and over again. 

 Elsewhere I have, described in detail the pangs of thirst. 



and said that these can scarcely be realised at all by 

 Northerners, to whom water is a mere matter of course-. 

 One tinds that tin: most widespread and multifarious 

 fallacies prevail about travels in the more or less unexplored 

 parts ot Africa. Even in the days ot complete ignorance 

 about this country it was clearly impossible tor its dis- 

 coverers to follow the compass at random into the 

 unknown. It guides were less readily forthcoming, people 



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