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out Ali and prepare to bear him company during 
the long stretches of the march. And then when the 
The Three Comrades 
long line of horsemen, native soldiers, porters, tent 
boys, gunbearers, ox gharries, and all began to 
wind their sinuous way over veldt or through for¬ 
est, there was none in the line more picturesque than 
