OUR TROUBLES. 



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in another three,^ by Captains Speke and Grant. 

 My principal object in alluding to them is to 

 offer the judgment and the after-thoughts ma- 

 tured by a whole decade, as well as to show what 

 has been done since. The risk of this, the first 

 attempt, has been stated to be nil by a man who 

 never trusted himself a mile away from the 

 coast, and whose tenderness for his personal 

 safety has ever been more than notorious. In 

 writing our adventures I was careful not to make 

 a sensation of danger; but future travellers, 

 warned by the fate of MM. Maizan and Roscher, 

 not to speak of Lieut. Stroyan, of Baron von der 

 Decken's party, nor of M. von Heuglin in the 

 Somali country, and the detention of Dr Living- 

 stone, will do well not to think that, when 

 about to explore Central Africa, they are setting 

 out upon a mere promenade. The repeated com- 

 plaints respecting our petty troubles, which to 

 readers appeared exaggerated, were true to my 

 feeling at the time. The death of Sayyid Said 



1 Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the jS'ile. 

 Blackwood, 1863. AVhat led to the Discovery of the Source of 

 the Xile. Blackwood, 1864. A Walk across Africa, by Capt. 

 Grant. Blackwood, 1861. The papers inform me that Cap- 

 tain now Col. Grant, C. B., is engaged upon a botanical work 

 which will illustrate the valuable collection brought home 

 by him in 1863. 



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