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as \ve can make ourselves, with but little to get to cat in 

 the town. My breaking down was due to excessive Fatigue 

 going into Greenland-cold sea water to bathe, finding 

 myself with a little fever, and travelling back a long dis- 

 tance to Heaven knows the name of the place where we 

 were stopping. 



The wind was blowing a perfect tornado when we came 

 here last Saturday, and it has kept it up ever since, so that 

 I have not been able to go out at all, except that Mr. 

 Spencer and myself emerged Saturday night in the howling 

 wind to get eatables for Sunday. Went to what they call 

 the market house and called for a piece of beef; the only 

 butcher said that all the beef he had was a little lamb, 

 of which we bought a fore quarter, and one half pound 

 of bacon, also a peck of peas and two pounds of pota- 

 toes, also a pound of butter, three pints of gooseberries, a 

 pound of brown sugar, one half pound of coffee, and six 

 candles. We have eaten all except the candles, and Kitty 

 has just gone out into the gale to buy something more. 

 The old Welsh mother of the house we can't understand ; 

 the daughter is quite an interesting girl, and waits on us. 

 Spencer had in his pocket the Pall Mall Gazette of July 

 3d, with the following paragraph : " It is stated in Amer- 

 ican papers that Prof. Youmans recently left that country 

 in order to present to Mr. Herbert Spencer $5,000 and a 

 valuable gold watch as a testimonial from his American 

 admirers." He told me that his friends had been dogging 

 him to publish the whole thing as an act of simple jus- 

 tice to the Americans. He thought that the false figures 

 ought to be corrected, but is very fearful that there will 

 be too much of a story made about it. I shall write a cor- 

 rective note to the Pall Mall fellows. As you may im- 

 agine, things have not been favourable for my work. Still, it 

 has been profitable. I have got glimpses of light on many 

 things, which will be helpful in the future. The present 



