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who made arrangements, by which we were at least spared 
the necessity of running about in the heat of the day 
for provisions, as all those, who have no stores of their own, 
are obliged to do. 
Here I stop. My recovery proceeds but slowly; to-day 
(October 25), I am not yet able to walk for half an hour. 
What concerns our stay at Fernando Po must be written 
hereafter, 
These are the concluding words of the Botanical Journal. 
In Dr. Vogel's private Journal there are some few entries 
after this date, referring mostly to personal affairs, de- 
spatches, provisions, and the like. . 
It would appear that, towards the end of November, he 
felt strong enough to begin his botanical excursions, 
and says: “ The heat is too great to allow convalescents, 
who are still very weak, to work much. Besides plants, I 
have now taken to collecting insects. Roscher has quite à 
mania for sporting ;"—Aand again :— ey 
December 2.—** We had intended to proceed this week into : 
the mountains, to the tent which had been erected for Cap- — 
tain Trotter; but ever since Sunday, Roscher has been ill, — 
probably in consequence of his sporting, often in the heat of 2 
the sun, and Thomson, who during the ‘absence of the 
* Albert," remains here as doctor, attends him. There are 
several cases of fever; amongst them White, the store- 
keeper, and the doctor; all people who have been here for. 
some time! The weather is certainly not genial to European E 
constitutions. Mornings and evenings are dull and foggy, — — 
: though not so thick but that one can see the country;noonand = 
| afternoon changeable, a few hot hours, with west and south — 
pu vent of Roscher's illness. I must attend to our. 
