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Prester John

CHAPTER VII
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If they get as far, they will be scattered there.

As I told you, I too have laid my train.

We have the police ready all along the scarp of the Berg.

Every exit from native territory is watched, and the frontier farmers are out on commando.

We have regulars on the Delagoa Bay and Natal lines, and a system of field telegraphs laid which can summon further troops to any point.


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