Dunglison.] g2 [October. 



found, to use his own language, "pleasant air, pleasant people, and 

 not unpleasant quarters." He described himself as, on the whole, 

 better, but still "had no courage for work, and was much worried over 

 the troubles of the country." "I feel strongly inclined," h€i»says, 

 "to escape for a while to some distant spot, where 1 can live cheaply, 

 in a milder climate. You say that I must avoid excitement. I can- 

 not preach without emotions, and those of the strongest, often the 

 most agitating, kind." 



A few weeks afterwards he announced that Mrs. Bethune and 

 himself had made up their minds to go abroad again ; that her own 

 comfort required a milder climate than he could give her in the 

 United States; and that, among other reasons, he found the en- 

 deavor to avoid emotion in the pulpit killed his manner, and unfitted 

 him for the control which his constitutional energy had hitherto 

 given him over an audience. 



Towards the end of September, he paid the writer a brief visit, to 

 take leave of him and other friends in Philadelphia; and although 

 there were few signs of impaired physical powers, and none of men- 

 tal decadency, the'writer could not help dreading a recurrence of his 

 most dangerous malady, and fearing that they might never meet 

 again. 



Early in October Dr. "Bethune sailed, for the last time, from his 

 native city. The voyage, which was in a screw steamer, was safe 

 and quick, but not very comfortable, owing to the rolling of the 

 vessel, which, he said, shook them more than any paddle-wheel boat 

 he had ever tried. The writer was pleased, however, to learn from 

 him when within a few hours from Queenstown, Ireland, that he was, 

 to all seeming, perfectly well, with not a trace of paralytic influence, 

 and all his corporeal functions going on right. " I only fear," he adds, 

 "being too well, but try to take care of myself. We have on board 

 besides the ship's surgeon — an intellectual Scotchman, a Dr. Black — 

 Dr. Haslett of the United States Navy, a personal friend of mine, so 

 that I shall not want for doctors." 



It had been Dr. Bethune's intention to visit the Channel Islands, 

 and thence to pass to Pau or to Bagnores de Bigorre to spend the 

 autumn, to linger some little time among the Pyrenees, and then to 

 proceed to Florence to winter; and his plans were carried out with 

 but little variation, except as to time. He spent nearly three weeks 

 very agreeably in Guernsey, which he found to be an economical 

 place, and with a good climate. "It would serve," he says, "as a 

 capital place of retirement for a party of people sufficiently large to 



