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Giovanni Vantini, believes they made it through to the glittering expanse of Lake Victoria,
it is more widely believed that the Sudd defeated them, just as it defeated me. I think I now
knew how they must have felt. They, too, had watched the sun set across the Nile from the
ridge on which I sat - only, for them, they were departing from the known world, into the
unknown. I was going the opposite way - back into the known; both into the past but, also,
the future.
