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THE WORLD'S WONDERS. 



" I could not conceive that anything in the world had power 

 to resist a determined will, so long as health and life remained. 

 The failure of every former attempt to reach the Nile's source, 



did not astonish me, as the expeditions had consisted of parties 

 which, when difficulties occur, generally end in difference of 

 opinion and retreat ; I therefore determined to proceed alone, 



