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me that he was following the slope of the ground, 

 and not marching due south, so I, compass in hand, 

 led my party, now augmented by a couple of men. 

 After marching four miles we came on a marshy 

 khor. The rest of my party, led by a friend of 

 the guide, marched down the slope for more than 

 four hours before they hit the khor, on which I had 

 been sitting since daybreak. 



Never after that was that unfailing water-finder (sic), 

 the prismatic compass, questioned. The compass has 

 other qualities. Sultan Atiok Chiok asked me if with 

 it I saw into the hearts of the people among whom 

 I was going. When I answered him with generalities 

 about hitherto unvisited tribes, he was much impressed. 



