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fortnight, one hundred and sixty-two white men 

 died out of two hundred and seventy-eight. 



The old sportsman's pluck enabled him to pull 

 through, and lam glad to say that he has returned 

 to Cheshire, and now looks as hale and hearty as 

 as ever. 



We left this plague-stricken land in the after- 

 noon, and, stopping for a few hours oif Benin on 

 the morning of the 6th of May, anchored off the 

 Lagos bar at 4 p.m. the same afternoon. 



Here I landed in H.M.S. "Handy," and re- 

 mained at Government House with Freeman until 

 the 10th, when I returned to England in the 

 " Armenian." 



After a pleasant voyage, in which Captain 

 Wylde and his officers did their utmost to make us 

 all comfortable, I landed in Liverpool on the 

 10th June, rather shaky, but not much the worse 

 for my trip. 



When I left the AVest Coast, a couple of years 

 afterwards, there was scarcely a single official left 

 of the many who showed me such kindness during 

 my trip. Death had been busy amongst them — 



