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for the night. But this in no way detracts from my great
obligation to Mr. Hudson for sending up for me, but adds
another item to the great debt of gratitude I owe him; for
had it not been for him I should never have seen the interior
of this beautiful region of the Ogowi. I tried to explain to
him how much I had enjoyed myself and how I realised
I owed it all to him ; but he persisted in his opinion that my
intentions and ambitions were suicidal, and took me own t e
Woermann Road, the ensuing Sunday, as it were on a string.