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that, although sad calamities had overtaken us, we 

 were now at last safely out of the grip of the nyika. 



Unfortunately the illness from which I had suffered 

 more or less throughout the return journey had 

 reduced me almost to a skeleton, and I was in such 

 a low state of health that when the Principal Medical 

 Officer of the Protectorate saw me on the following 

 morning, he sent me before a Medical Board who 

 ordered my immediate return to England. 



I said good-bye to Abbudi at the railway station, 

 while Munyakai bin Diwani anci one or two others 

 came with me as far as Mombasa. All wished me 

 a good recovery and a speedy return for another 

 safari, so that we might again journey together 

 through the East African wilds. 



