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CHAPTER XIOTHER JOURNEYSTHAT was the finest campaigning march thatSIEGLINDA has ever undertaken. To the caravannerwho wants the sternest test of his powersand who isprepared for a journey of many weekswith a great goal at the end, this road to John o'Groat's offers perhaps the most striking opportunityin the British Isles. The route by whichwe travelled can of course be very much simplifiedand the distance reduced by almost twohundred miles. By following the Great NorthRoad to Inverness the dangers and difficultiesof the Caledonian Canal can be left out and :bysticking to the coast of Sutherland as far asHelmsdale and then taking the road up StrathHalladale (by which we returned), all the worstof the Sutherland hills may be avoided. Buteven thus, whittled down to its simplest elements,it is a fine campaign. I suppose, in the nature ofthings, if all goes well, I shall some day driveSIEGLINDA to Land's End, and I have plans for86