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tion a nice collection of molluscs , Crustacea and insects. 



A great impediment was the sickness of my friend Sala , 

 which at last obliged me , in order to procure him more 

 comforts, to remove to Robertsport where we arrived on 

 the 20t'i of April. There his health became worse every- 

 day until he died after long sufferings on the 10*^ of 

 June 1881, the evening before he was to be brought by 

 a Dutch vessel to Monrovia and eventually to Europe. He 

 is buried in the grave-yard of the American Protestant 

 Episcopal Mission at Robertsport. 



After this sad event I kept my headquarters fixed at 

 Robertsport. From here I made several long excursions 

 and temporary stays in the interior. So I resided some 

 time at Cor o and Fali, two strongly fortified native (Vey) 

 towns near the frontiers of the Golah Country , and at 

 Cab a and Sauwira on the Marfa River. After there was 

 no possibility of staying any longer there on account of 

 a violent native war, I removed to the southern slope of 

 Grand Cape Mount. There I lived with my Liberian hunts- 

 man Jackson Demery and two servants in a tent in the 

 midst of the virgin forest and called this place on account 

 of our living quietly far from the noise of human habita- 

 tions TravellersRest. 



But my health was broken , strength was gone and my 

 legs were continually covered with ulcers so that, the 

 last few months of my stay in Liberia , I was obliged to 

 keep my bed. Seeing that there was no possibility of re- 

 covery in this climate , I left Liberia at the end of April 

 1882 for Europe, though only, as I thought then, for a 

 few months. Here 1 found that T needed much more time 

 to recover entirely and that I should probably never again 

 become strong enough for that unhealthy climate. More- 

 over Prof. Schlegel died during my stay in Holland and I 

 happened to awaken in Mr. Stampfli , an experienced Swiss 

 huntsman and old acquaintance of mine , an interest in 

 that district. He has now carried on for about a year, 

 our zoological researches and is exploring at this moment. 



Notes from the Leytlen ]VIuseuiu, Vol. VU, 



