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...most merciless enemies, how ever, were loneliness and isolation. For months Hanley's reading matter was a book entitled Engineering Problems in Paraguay. The pressure of making decisions concerning the volatile Somalis drove many British officers into depression and even suicide. Yet solitude seems to have thrown Hanley backon his best resource: a fine, inquisitive mind whose essential romanticism was balanced by experience...