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CHAPTER XIV. THE ADVANCE SOUTH. Military critics will condemn my arrangements for an advance south. My original plans had been well laid. A line of fortified posts was to have been established throughout the country at intervals of three days' march. This would have assured an open communication with Gondokoro. Unfortunately, my force had been 350 men short of the number stipulated; and the 1,200 men that had once been reviewed at Gondokoro had been reduced to 500. I could not