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Excerpt from The Highlands of Ethiopia, Etc To Captain Douglas Graham, his accomplished and early friend, and principal assistant, he acknowledges himself most especially indebted, for the aid of a head and of a pen, such as are not Often to be found united. The exertions of assistant-surgeon Kirk alleviated incalculable human suffering and his perseverance, although long Opposed by an unfavorable climate, carried through a series of magnetic and astronomical observa tions of the highest importance to Abyssinian geography. 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.