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no cause for anxiety ; in fact, everything seemed favourable 

 once more. The only thing I dreaded was that the heavy 

 rains, which according to generally received notions were now 

 overdue, might give us trouble and impede our progress. As 

 a matter of fact, though, we never experienced anything that 

 could be called a wet season at all that year. 



2 B 



