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possible just what would most strike any person of ordinary 

 intelligence in passing through the country. For the sake 

 of the freshness which usually attaches to first impressions, 

 the Journal of Charles Livingstone has been incorporated 

 in the narrative ; and many remarks made by the natives, 

 which he put down at the moment of translation, will 

 convey to others the same ideas as they did to ourselves. 

 Some are no doubt trivial ; but it is by the little acts and 

 words of every-day life that character is truly and best 

 known. And doubtless many will prefer to draw their 

 own conclusions from them rather than to be schooled 

 by us. 



