CHAPTER XIX. 



THE KROO COAST AND PRINCe's ISLAND. 



" Their native soil no more they trod, 

 They rest beneath no hallowed sod 

 Throughout the living world ; 

 The sole memorial of their lot 

 Remains — They were and they are not." 



MONTGOMEEY. 



The return to Glass. — Fever. — The Kroo Coast.— A cruise in H.M.S. 

 "Wrangler." — Prince's Island. — "The azure grotto." — Sea 

 birds. — " Submarine life." — " Black Jesuits." — Santa Antonio. 

 — Santa Isabel. — The Hadji's retreat. — Captain Richard F. 

 Burton. — The Consulate. — Yellow Jack. — Bonny, — Great 

 mortality.— Return to England. 



I WAS very glad to find myself once more in 

 Walker's comfortable quarters, for, besides being 

 footsore and thoroughly knocked-up with hard 

 work, I was in a very debilitated state from constant 

 attacks of fever, which became remittent, and for 

 seven days never left me. Each weary hour brought 

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