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rearrange the boys' loads, as they could no longer 

 carry a full sixty pounds. 



After lunch I felt better. Osa and I with porters 

 carrying cameras started up the trail to see what we 

 could photograph. I think it was this trip that did 

 us in. For in trying to reach a ridge where we 

 expected to get good pictures we over-exerted our- 

 selves and climbed all of two thousand feet. As 

 we were further away from camp than we thought, 

 we did not get back imtil after dark. We were 

 chilled through by then and both went to bed with- 

 out dinner. 



In the middle of the night our temperatures went 

 up again imtil I had 104 and Osa 102. We called 

 the boys and had hot water bottles prepared and hot 

 whiskey made. But by morning we were very ill 

 with fits of coughing. Osa's temperatiire kept rising 

 and her breathing was so fast that I was badly 

 frightened ; so much so that I offered heavy baksheesh 

 to a couple of boys to htury down the motmtain 

 after Dr. Irwine. I suspected that Osa had pneu- 

 monia; and I knew that I had bronchitis. 



Two boys and John Wilshusen went but foimd 

 the doctor away. However, John was equal to the 

 emergency. He gathered all the porters he could 

 scrape together — twelve I believe — armed them 

 with pangas, and started up the mountain with the 

 Willys-Knight big six. This trip of his will always to 



