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to make, or a bit of soldering to be done, or a piece of woodwork to 

 be altered. Assistance of this kind was always most cheerfully and 

 promptly rendered. Lastly, it remains to be said, the recollection of 

 the hospitality of H.M.S. Alecto and of H.M.S. Blonde, which took 

 us away from the fever-stricken coast, will ever remain one of the 

 pleasantest of the associations connected with the successful expe- 

 dition of the African eclipse party. 



[T. E. T.] 



