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Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race.

Source: ''Narrative of a Trip to Harar.'
-- Richard Francis Burton, (Mar 19 1821-1890), English scholar, explorer; He was the first European to discover Lake Tanganyika and to penetrate hitherto-forbidden Muslim cities; published 43 volumes on his explorations.

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