{"id":334,"date":"2025-12-14T20:15:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T20:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/word\/?p=334"},"modified":"2025-12-14T20:15:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T20:15:15","slug":"we-were-in-a-great-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aberth.com\/samuelwhitebaker\/we-were-in-a-great-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"We were in a great dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were in a great dilemma. Had we been in good health, I would have forsaken everything but the guns and ammunition, and have marched directly to Gondokoro on foot; but this was utterly impossible. Neither my wife nor I could walk a quarter of a mile without fainting. There was no guide, and the country was now overgrown with impenetrable grass and tangled vegetation eight feet high. We were in the midst of the rainy season&#8211;not a day passed without a few hours of deluge. Altogether it was a most heart-breaking position. 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