Most of you will have heard that Allan Quater-main, who was one of the party that discovered King Solomon‟s mines some little time ago, and who afterwards came to live in England near his friend Sir Henry Curtis. He went back to the wil-derness again, as these old hunters almost invaria-bly do, on one pretext or another. *] They cannot endure civilization for very long, its noise and rack-et and the omnipresence of broad-clothed humanity proving more trying to their nerves than the dan-gers of the desert. I think that they feel lonely here, for it is a fact that is too little understood, though it has often been stated, that there is no loneliness like the loneliness of crowds, especially to those who are unaccustomed to them.
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