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THROUGH JUNGLE AND DESERT 



CHAP. 



most fortunate in securing the cooperation of Lieu- 

 tenant von Hohnel. What he accompHshed for geog- 

 raphy will be seen from an inspection of the maps 

 accompanying this volume. 



But one other white man accompanied us ; this was 

 my servant, George Galvin, an American boy nineteen 



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years of age. He had accompanied me upon my first 

 expedition to Africa, at which time he was but sixteen 

 years of age, and had not only proved himself capable, 

 in an astonishing degree, of withstanding the hardships 

 incident to African travel, but had also developed 

 marked capability in the work connected with the 



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