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Following the Equator
Part 4

CHAPTER XXXIII
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They said, 'No.' If such their lives would have been spared.

In money we took L60 odd.

I said, 'Is this all you have?
You had better tell me.' Sullivan said, 'Here is a bag of gold.' I said, 'What's on that pack-horse?
Is there any gold ?' when Kempthorne said, 'Yes, my gold is in the portmanteau, and I trust you will not take it all.' 'Well,' I said, 'we must take you away one at a time, because the range is steep just here, and then we will let you go.' They said, 'All right,' most cheerfully.

We tied their feet, and took Dudley with us; we went about sixty yards with him.

This was through a scrub.


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