Footnotes:
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[ The equator was crossed on the 8th February 1862.]
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[ The Wahuma are treated of in Chapter IX.]
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[ The list of my fauna collection will be found in an early Number of the "Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.">[
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[ Captain Burton, on receiving his gold medal at the hands of Sir Roderick I. Murchison, said, "You have alluded, sir, to the success of the last expedition. Justice compels me to state the circumstances under which it attained that success. To Captain Speke are due those geographical results to which you have alluded in such flattering terms. Whilst I undertook the history and ethnography, the languages, and the peculiarity of the people, to Captain Speke fell the arduous task of delineating an exact topography, and of laying down our positions by astronomical observations—a labour to which, at times, even the undaunted Livingstone found himself unequal.">[