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me to a very low ebb, from which nothing but the 

 unremitting attention and careful nursing which 

 1 received at the hands of those kindest of 

 women, my old and very dear friends Mrs. Frederick 

 Barber and her daughter Mrs. Alexander Bailie, at 

 len^^th rescued me. To these two ladies I owe a 

 debt of gratitude which, if life is worth living, 1 can 

 never repay. 



By the end of March I had sufficiently recovered 

 to enable me to return to my waggons at Klerksdorp, 

 and a week later I once more started upon my eighth 

 and last hunting trip to the far interior. 



END OF 1879. 



