478 THE FOREST AND THE FIELD. 



Clarence Bay about 5 p.m. on the next evening. 

 AVe remained a week at " Santa Isabel," as the 

 Spaniards now call the town, and I put up at the 

 Consulate, where Captain Burton made me so 

 comfortable, that I quite regretted when the time 

 came for the " AVrangler " to take another cruise. 

 Burton's iron constitution does not appear to have 

 suffered much from the climate of Africa; he still 

 looks " as hard as nails," and I did not see any 

 change in his appearance since we parted at 

 Misserie's Hotel, at Constantinople, some seven 

 years before, although during that time he had 

 gone through enough hard work to have knocked 

 up half-a-dozen ordinary men, and his name had 

 become famous in Europe " as the most enterprising 

 and accomplished explorer of the present age." 

 Such men have no time to be ill, and their active 

 life does much to ward off disease. I visited the 

 grave of Lander, the African explorer, but was too 

 much debilitated by constant attacks of fever to 

 attempt the ascent of the Peak, which is about 

 10,700 feet in height, and I spent the greater 

 part of my time in attempting to doctor myself. 



