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can only add in conclusion, that this amount of success 

 ■ft' as due to the hearty assistance which I received from 

 the officers of the army ; all, almost without exception, 

 appeared to take a genuine interest in scientific research, 

 and a desire to aid me in carrying out the objects of 

 my mission to Abyssinia. While it is very much to 

 be regretted that a wider exploration could not bo 

 carried out, and that no additional knowledge was 

 obtained of those parts of the country to the southwards 

 which are but little known, or quite unknown, to Euro- 

 peans, it is a satisfaction that the campaign was not 

 allowed, like so many others, to be entirely useless 

 to science, and that at least an endeavour was made to 

 profit by the opportunity aff"orded of examining under 

 peculiarly favourable conditions a most interesting region 

 of the earth's surface. 



