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only parallel. Our journey will be over, I expect, 
before I can ask you specially to pray for us in this 
another attempt ; but I know you do not forget the 
old boy in Africa. 
'' Earnestly trusting that you are all well, and will 
not be unnecessarily frightened at our again going to 
Makuta, and with much love, I remain, always with 
much affection, TOM.’’ 
But, though Mr. Comber was not personally destined 
to reach the Pool by the Makuta road, the courage 
and perseverance of the Congo band were at last 
triumphantly rewarded. The heroic achievement 
was ultimately effected by Mr. Bentley and Mr. 
Crudgington, by a route those missionaries forced 
from Musuka, to which place on the Lower Congo 
they returned, then passed through Vivi, and kept 
along the north bank to Stanley Pool. 
To describe that remarkable feat would be foreign 
to these pages, but it may unhesitatingly be regarded 
as one of the most extraordinary in modern travel. 
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