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English trader of that name. Here again we had a 

 serious case to deal with. A girl of fourteen had 

 been ill with internal abscess for between two and 

 three years. She was sent to hospital after a tri- 

 fling operation, and remained there a month. When 

 I returned south I found her well and happy, and 

 she told me she was only sorry she could not live in 

 hospital. 



I was interested in examining at Cartwright a 

 marble tomb, raised, as the inscription proclaimed, 

 "to commemorate the piety and zeal of the founder 

 of this colony." Some humble lichens had, in the 

 course of time, grown in between the slabs, and 

 with irresistible power had forced them open, re- 

 vealing to the prying eye within not the crumbling 

 dust of the departed trader, but a mighty demijohn 

 of rum, no doubt made mellow by long years of 

 waiting. Alas! that there are those to-day whose 

 memory would be most aptly treasured by such an 

 epigram, whom in life, for their riches' sake, a 

 blinded world "delights to honour." 



We were now only two hands on the launch, the 

 engineer and myself, for our steward had returned 

 to Battle Hospital. We were therefore anxious to 

 push ahead, and on August loth we were glad to 

 run into Indian Harbour, and again " bring to " 

 alongside the Albert. We found to our sorrow that 

 bad weather had prevented the landing of our hos- 

 pital till a month after we had expected ; and, though 

 all available hands had been at work, it was found 



