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that he could afford. I agreed lo join him. We 

 worked hard to prepare ourselves, and made a Lit 

 sketch map, on whieh notes of every iinporlaiit 

 traveller beariiur on the part in which we were 

 interested were entered al the locality ihey referred 

 to. It was desirable lor him to have some experience 

 in surveying, and as I was i;'oin^ to the Isle of Wi-dit, 

 we agreed to practise there. The first and only 

 attempt had an absurd ending. We found a stron-lv 

 railed field suitable for a commencement, into which 

 we ^ot by climbing- the fence, and prepared to 

 unpack, not particularly noticing the cattle in it; but 

 one of them was a bull, who, after the manner of such 

 animals, advanced in so threatening and determined 

 a manner that we had to retreat from the brute as 



best we could. 



This proved to be the end of our joint experiments, 



lor I was taken ill with \\hal seemed al first to be 

 only a. very bad sore throat, but which developed into 

 a singular form of (jiiinsy <>l a dangerous character. 

 My old friends, Mr. Hodgson and I )r. Todd, were 

 unremitting in their attent ions, and told me afterwards 

 that they were on the point of having my windpipe 

 opened, as I was nearly suffocating. At last, an 

 ah \hich was situated in a <dand on the upper 



Surface ol the tongue, but far back near its root, broke, 

 and I breathed freely. I was soon able to swallow, 

 and gradually became convalescent, but Mr. 1 bul-son 

 peremptorily forbade further thoughts of Sinai. I 



shall have t<> refer again to \V. Spottiswoode. 



It has happened to me more than once to be nearly 

 Suffocated, and to have been surprised at the absence 



of that gasping desire for air that one feels when the 



