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well to Daitcho, and turned our faces to the north. 

 Our hearts beat high with hope. We felt convinced 

 that should fortune favour us in the slightest degree, 

 we should not only accomplish geographical discovery, 

 but return to Daitcho well supplied with beasts of 

 burden ; which, together with the supplies we had or- 

 dered Hamidi to bring from the coast, would enable 

 us to start out equipped for eighteen months' further 

 exploration ; and this, after a stay of already more than 

 one year in the interior. 



