20 MEMOIR OF THE LIFE 
had every thing in our domestic arrangements to superintend 
ourselves ; otherwise we must have engaged more servants, - 
and that is not only expensive, but we have quite enough to — 
do to manage the two we have. An African servant will nof 
listen to orders, but will do every thing out of his own head; 
and if his taste does not agree with his master's, the master 
he thinks must comply with his. If I say to the cook, 
“this must not be dressed so,” he answers quietly, “ That is 
how I like it;” and if my servant, contrary to my directions, 
goes out for the whole evening, he says coolly, * When you 
have got your meal, you have nothing more to do with me." 
It is often difficult to procure any thing for dinner: we have 
had no meat for two days, and there was none to be got for — 
money. The same is often the case with bread, and if one - 
has not a stock of ship biscuit, there is great difficulty about 
it. The light afforded by a palm-oil lamp is worse than that 
of the lamps which, in Germany, are allowed to servants, and 
this is very bad when we have any work to do in the evening- 
What I chiefly dislike is the host of ants, beetles, moths, &c 
which swarm every where: they are very destructive to my 
collections; and 1 wage constant war with them. Besides - 
the wasps, flies of all sorts, lizards, salamanders and rats pay _ 
us constant visits; so that a Zoologist ought to rejoice in 
having so good an opportunity to make their acquaintance.” 
While Vogel was busied in this manner with plans and 
preparations for future exertions, which bade fair to be pro- 
ductive, and this perhaps too early for his strength, the seeds 
of the last fatal malady were developed. In December, that 
is, at the time when the rain ceases to pour down in torrents, 
cold and damp weather prevailed in the island, which is - 
highly prejudicial to Europeans. 
In consequence, on the 4th of December, Vogel was seized 
with a dysentery which confined him to bed, and daily ex- 3 
hausted his strength. Dr, Thomson, surgeon of the Soudan, d 
Dr. Mc William, of the Albert, and other physicians, paid 
him the greatest attention ; and Herr Roscher, the companion 
of his journey, his fellow-lodger and friend, never left the | 
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