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PREFACE

GENERAL PEREIRA, nearly up to the last day of

his life, kept a diary of his travels, and literally

up to the last day of his life made observations

for his map. He was exceptionally methodical

in his observations, and no illness or discomfort

was ever allowed to stand in the way of making

his record.

From his survey maps have been compiled in

the War Office, and copies may be seen at the

rooms of the Royal Geographical Society ; and it

is from these that the map accompanying this

book has been compiled. And to make the story

of his travels available for the general public, his

brother, Sir Cecil Pereira, placed the diaries at

my disposal. With so much detail available

it has been possible to describe with great

accuracy the route followed on his journeys.

But General Pereira was singularly restrained in

the expression of those feelings which every

traveller has : it is not possible, therefore, to

describe what he felt. But how concentrated

and intense his feelings must have been we may

conclude from the single fact that these journeys

were made at all made in the face of physical

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