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The story of Africa and its explorers (1892)

Brown, Robert, 1842-1895, Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI · London : Cassell · leaf 164

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were scarcely in order to read to him the Scriptures in less remarkable. To the last he remained Swahili, a language understood by the king capricious, double-dealing, and self-indul- and his chiefs. gent ; but only those embittered by dis- Still, whatever might be the dangers and appointment can… … the influence of any mind superior to his own, eager to go was equal to the munificence of more especially when the mind was that of a those who had provided the means to defray foreign visitor, M’tesa, between the visit of the cost of this great adventure. In June, Speke and that of Stanley, had…

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