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THE WORLD'S WONDERS. 



ment manifested itself in loud and fervid exclamations of gratitude 



to Allah ! 



It was a wayworn, feeble and suffering column that filed across 

 the rocky terrace of Isangilaand sloping plain the following day, 

 and strode up the ascent to the table-land, pearly forty men 



filled the sick list with dysentery, ulcers and scurvy, and the 

 victims of the latter disease were steadily increasing. 



They found the coast natives so degraded that they would not 

 exchange food for any article except rum, the use of which they 

 had derived from the Portuguese traders ; so that starvation soon 

 stared them in the face. On the evening of the third day they 



