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CONCLUSION. 
means of penetrating into the countries through which I have 
travelled — an achievement vrhich, without this acquiescence, 
would have been impracticable, except by encountering at 
every step the hazard of death, and inevitably suffering it at 
last. I must confess that these unjust attacks have affected 
me more sensibly than all the hardships, fatigues, and priva- 
tions, which I have encountered in the interior of Africa. 
