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Title: A visit to Stanley's rear-guard at Major Barttelot's camp on the Aruhwimi with an account of the river-life on the Congo
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Werner, J.R
Subjects: Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904 Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Description and travel Congo River -- Description and travel
Publisher: Edinburgh W. Blackwood
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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■J5^^ HO pi < W ^;o o CO <: KOKh a Xuh u MCO -^flU^ .^-^ --■ ANTICIPATED PLEASUEES. 189 pleasant associations, rose up vividly before me;and presently I went to sleep, spite of mosquitoesand heat—to awake refreshed at dawn next day.Should the authoress of that book ever read theselines, I hope she will accept my sincere thanks.It brought to my minds eye the long, parallelstraio;ht lines of shinino- metal in dear old Enolandwhich some people think so ugly — the memoryof which speaks to me of being whirled over theground in comfortable carriages, at the rate of fortyto sixty miles per hour — of palatial hotels, andwell-cooked meals on snowy table-cloths, and kindfriends waitino- to welcome the wanderer home. Itis on visions like these that travellers live throuohthe hours of utter misery which they are sure toexperience in countries like Africa. When tiredand enervated, perhaps hungry and thirst)^, theremembrance of lordly London and her imperialpleasures r

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