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places where we expected the car would turn over. 



We reached the Mission at dark. Dr. Irwine had 

 been sent for and a grass house was fixed up with beds. 

 Osa seemed a little better when we got into the house; 

 but my fever was a himdred and four. The doctor 

 said I had bronchitis on top of influenza. Osa had 

 double pneumonia and in a short while was delirious. 

 Dr. Irwine was frightened and sent John off to Meru 

 a little after midnight, where he sent wires to Nairobi 

 for another doctor. On getting word that Dr. Ander- 

 son had set out, John returned. Dr. Irwine then 

 said a nurse was necessary at once. So John set out 

 again for Nairobi and did the himdred and sixty miles 

 in five hours and twenty minutes. He was lucky 

 in getting a nurse and returned in another five hours. 

 The nurse says her hair turned gray on this trip. 



On arrival Dr. Anderson fotind another nurse was 

 necessary and more medicine. John arrived with the 

 first nurse and immediately turned around and 

 rushed back to Nairobi for another. As he could not 

 find a nurse in town he made a sixty mile trip out 

 into the country and got her and was back with us 

 early next morning. 



I was moved out of the hut into the Mission while 

 both doctors and a nurse and the doctor's wife 

 worked over Osa all night. Before daylight Dr. 

 Anderson came in and told me he was afraid Osa 

 would not live. He asked for her mother's address 



