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Here good Dr. Law took charge and, ten hours after the 

 accident, fitted the shattered bone so skilfully that hardly a 

 trace remains of the bad colleus fracture. The patient had 

 no temperature at the time of the operation, the only ill 

 effect being a short, sharp attack of malaria. I cite all these 

 details chiefly to show the falsity of most of the universal 

 slanders on a tropical climate. 



Nine days afterward on April 24th, we sailed from George- 

 town, homesick with desire to remain longer in this wonder- 

 land. The three short expeditions we had made, served only 

 to whet our eagerness to search deeper beneath the surface, 

 and glean some of the more fundamental secrets which 

 Nature still hides from us. But we had fulfilled the bush- 

 proverb; we had u eaten of labba meat and drunk of river 

 water" and we know in our hearts that some day we shall 

 return. 



Meanwhile the thought of that vast continent, as yet 

 almost untouched by real scientific research; the supreme 

 joy of learning, of discovering, of adding our tiny facts to the 

 foundation of the everlasting icliy of the universe; all this 

 makes life for us Milady and me one never-ending 

 delight. 



