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one he met." And wherever else in the country he 

 made any sort of stay, he appeared to have been 

 scarcely less fortunate in this respect. 



Soon after his return from America in 1872 he 

 began to make arrangements for a more extended 

 journey — the one of which this volume treats, and 

 on which he started in March 1873. His plan on 

 this occasion was to reach the Zambesi from Natal, 

 and if possible visit some of the unexplored country 

 to the north of that river. In the latter hope he 

 was destined to disappointment, and the number of 

 obstacles he met with in realizing the former serve 

 to illustrate some of the ordinary difficulties which 

 may be encountered in African travel. Of the 

 results, however, such as they were, of this journey, 

 in which he lost his life, the reader must be left to 

 form his own judgment from the perusal of the 

 ensuing pages. He had at least acquired much of 

 that needful experience of rough travel and adven- 

 ture, without which little can be accomplished in the 

 way of exploration or research. It is almost certain 

 that, had he lived, his next journey would have been 

 of a more ambitious kind, remarkable as he was for 

 that love of enterprise which characterizes the true 

 explorer; of this he spoke merely as a "little trip." 

 His experiences, moreover, in this two years' travel, 

 must still further have convinced him, if in a 

 different manner, of those evil effects of attempt- 



