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 1874. 



required in its construction. Here we halted, and most of tlie 

 people took the opportunity to have a bathe ; but I was obliged 

 to lie down and rest, being completely exhausted by fever. 

 After a time we moved on, passing many deserted villages, with 

 their crops destroyed by the late marauders from Nyangwe, and 

 camped about nine in the evening. 



KUS8UNA ANI) A WIFK. 



During the last part of the march, the fever so increased that 

 I reeled like a drunken man, and was scarcely able to drag one 

 foot after the other. To my fevered vision and ideas the large, 

 white, pyramidal ant-hills, which were plentiful, often seemed 

 to be my tent ; and when I found myself mistaken, the hope 

 that each in succession might really prove to be it kept me 

 moving, although I was thoroughly beaten. I was somewhat 

 better the next day, and managed to get along ; but it was weary 



