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"An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible."
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"Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe."
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"Africa had a way of coming back and simply covering everything up again."
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"There isn't a parallel of latitude but thinks it would have been the equator if it had had its rights."
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"We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio."
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"Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England."
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"A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days."
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"I like geography. I like to know where places are."
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"The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast include an area several times larger than France and could contain ten Englands and still have room to spare."
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"Dr. David Livingstone left the Island of Zanzibar in March, 1866."
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"In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves."
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"The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America."
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"The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children."
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"Dr. David Livingstone left the Island of Zanzibar in March, 1866."
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"I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar."
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"But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape."
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"An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible."
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