CHAPTER XVII 



1885 



ON April 8, lie landed at Folkestone, and stayed 

 there a day or two before going to London. Writing 

 to Sir J. Donnelly, he remarks with great satisfaction 

 at getting home : 



We got here this afternoon after a rather shady 

 passage from Boulogne, with a strong north wind in our 

 teeth all the way, and rain galore. For all that, it is 

 the pleasantest journey I have made for a long time so 

 pleasant to see one's own dear native mud again. There 

 is no foreign mud to come near it 



And on the same day he sums up to Sir M. Foster 

 the amount of good he has gained from his expedi- 

 tion, and the amount of good any patient is likely to 

 get from travel : 



As for myself I have nothing very satisfactory to say. 

 By the oddest chance we met Andrew Clark in the boat, 

 and he says I am a very bad colour which I take it is 

 the outward and visible sign of the inward and carnal 

 state. I may sum that up by saying that there is 

 nothing the matter but weakness and indisposition to do 

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