Excerpt from Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography, 1889, Vol. 11 It was well for me that I did so, for the few days devoted to the trip revealed such a state of things among my men as almost reduced me to the verge of despair. Their laziness, insolence, gluttony, and deceit were quite a revelation to me, and I speedily saw that the first essential to our successful progress was the settlement of the question who was the master. After a most unpleasant struggle this point was determined incur favour, but from first to last our own men were our worst enemies, while their laziness, intractable character, and persistent treachery not only poisoned all the pleasure of my journey, but time after time thwarted and upset my plans when promising most success. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.