My course has been an even one, turning neither to the right hand nor to the left, though my route has been tortuous enough.

All the hardship, hunger, and toil were met with the full conviction that I was right in persevering to make a complete work of the exploration of the sources of the Nile.

Mine has been a calm, hopeful endeavour to do the work that has been given me to do, whether I succeed or whether I fail.

The prospect of death in pursuing what I knew to be right did not make me veer to one side or the other.

I had a strong presentiment during the first three years that I should never live through the enterprise, but it weakened as I came near to the end of the journey, and an eager desire to discover any evidence of the great Moses having visited these parts bound me, spell-bound me, I may say, for if I could bring to light anything to confirm the Sacred Oracles, I should not grudge one whit all the labour expended.