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PREFACE. 
The journey is long, the countries savage; there 
are no ancient histories to charm the present with 
memories of the past; all is wild and brutal, hard 
and unfeeling, devoid of that holy instinct instilled by 
nature into the heart of man—the belief in a Supreme 
Being. In ’that remote wilderness in Central Equa¬ 
torial Africa are the Sources of the Nile. 
