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PREFACE* 
stances, which will be fully developed in the 
sequel. I shall say nothing of my sufferings 
and privations ; but after all I have witnessed, I 
feel deeply impressed with the generous senti- 
ments and wishes of his Majesty's Government 
towards all who need their aid, and I entertain 
a fervent hope that to future travellers in Africa 
my humble endeavours may prove a source of 
more ample success than it has fallen to my lot 
to achieve. 
I cannot conclude, without regretting the 
premature death of my friend and companion 
Staff Surgeon Dochard, who but a few months 
after my return from Africa, fell a victim to the 
consequences of the sufferings and privations he 
endured on the missions under the command of 
Major Peddie, Captain Campbell, and myself. 
I particularly felt the want of that assistance in 
preparing our several notes for the press, which 
he was so fully able to afford me. The importance 
of his notes have not, however, been altogether 
lost, though they are still deprived of much of 
that value which his reconsideration would no 
doubt have imparted to them. Such as he left 
them, they are faithfully preserved, and have 
been used in the narrative with the same atten- 
tion as my own. 
W. GRAY, Major. 
