468 THE FOREST AND THE FIELD. 



no alleviation, and from time to time I found myself 

 sinking into a kind of partial insensibility and 

 delirium, in spite of my continued efforts to hold 

 up and fight against the disease. 



Reade — who had also been for some days in the 

 bush, and returned haggard and worn from repeated 

 attacks of fever — came to see me, and said that he 

 had decided to pay a visit to the Island of Corisco 

 and Cape St. John ; and as Walker was returning 

 to England in the *' Montezuma," one of Messrs. 

 Hatton and Cookson's vessels, which he had loaded 

 in the Gaboon with African produce, I determined 

 to accompany Knight in a trip to Cape Palmas, 

 where he was going in the " Guildford," to obtain 

 fresh Kroomen and take back the old ones, whose 

 two years' service had expired. 1 thought that a 

 voyage and sea-air would enable me to shake off 

 the fever, and accordingly made preparations for 

 embarking. 



The next day we visited the Admiral of the 

 French Fleet, Baron Didelot, and one of the ofi&cers 

 on board the flag-ship photographed a young 

 gorilla that Walker had obtained alive. During 



