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out All and prepare to bear him company during 

 the long stretches of the march. And then when the 



The Three Comrades 



long line of horsemen, native soldiers, porters, tent 

 boys, gunbearers, ox gharries, and all began to 

 wind their sinuous way over veldt or through for- 

 est, there was none in the line more picturesque than 



