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on his return from Australia, but his change of air had 

 not complete^ cured him and he was compelled to leave 

 the country at the end of November. Goodfellow, whose 

 fever continued almost without interruption, became so 

 weak that he also was obliged to leave the country early 

 in October. From that time we had only a dozen men 

 and no forward movement was possible until the arrival 

 of our third batch of coolies on the 22nd December. By 

 the same boat that brought the new coolies in December 

 came instructions to Captain Rawling to take over the 

 command of the expedition. 



