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ing; and, alas! only two of the three Europeans returned to this 
place. Dr. Bromfield’s young and amiable friend and fellow-traveller, 
Mr. Lakes, took the eruptive fever of the country, called Jeddereh or 
Jiddereh, very analogous in its symptoms to the small-pox, and died 
after a few days’ illness at Berber. The same letter that conveyed this sad 
intelligence from Dr. Bromfield, contained also the particulars of the death 
of Mr. Melly, which had occurred only two months previously, in tra- 
versing the Desert between Berber and Abou Hamed: this gentleman 
died surrounded by his family, consisting of Mrs. Melly, a daughter, and 
two sons. These ladies are said to be the first English females that 
ever made their appearance in Khartoum and on the White Nile. 
These events must have cast a gloom over the minds of the surviving 
companions. Yet, and with debilitated constitutions owing to the 
fatigue and bad food, Dr. Bromfield and Mr. Pengilly visited a great 
number of interesting places on their return voyage; and in the 
midst of the ancient remains of Dendereh, he writes in his journal: 
* I had another object in again stopping at Dendereh, namely, to pro- 
cure a cluster of the fruit of the Doum Palm, for the Botanical Museum 
at Kew Gardens, agreeably to a request from Sir William Hooker that 
I would if possible do so. In this I have fully succeeded ; and, whilst 
the villagers were engaged in cutting me off a properly-sized cluster 
. from the forests of the Palm which adorn the approach from the river 
to the Temple, I pushed on for the latter, returning with rather in- 
ereased than diminished admiration of this beautiful and elaborately 
adorned structure." . i 
The travellers returned to Cairo on the 4th of J une, after an 
absence of seven months. Between that period and the 22nd of 
_ July, Dr. Bromfield accomplished the following trips, and saw the 
following lions. To Suez and back, 184 miles, on a donkey. To the 
ment of their occurrence ;—but it pleased the Almighty to throw a deep gloom over 
the latter part of our Ethiopian journey by removing one of our little party of three 
