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most painful kind, very often follows. When lying 

 in bed, my toes have sometimes curled round and 

 looked me in the face ; at other times, when I have 

 put my hand behind my back, it has stuck there 

 until, with the other hand, I have seized the con- 

 tracted muscles, and warmed the part affected with 

 the natural heat, till, relaxation taking place, I was 

 able to get it back. Another nasty thing is the 

 blindness which attacked another of our party in 

 a manner exactly similar to my complaint. He, 

 like myself, left Africa with a misty veil floating 

 before his eyes. 



There are other disorders, but so foreign to my ex- 

 perience that I dare not venture to describe them. 

 For as doctors disagree about the probable causes of 

 their appearance, I most likely would only mislead if 

 I tried to account for them. However, I think I may 

 safely say they emanate from general debility, pro- 

 duced by the much-to-be-dreaded fevers. 



The caravan broke ground at 4 P.M. on the 15th, and, 

 completing the principal zigzag made to avoid wars, 

 arrived at Senagongo. Kanoni, followed by a host 

 of men, women, and children, advanced to meet the 

 caravan, all roaringly intoxicated with joy, and lavish- 

 ing greetings of welcome, with showers of " Yambo, 

 Yanibo Sanas" ("How are you?" and, "Very well, 

 I hope 1 ?"), which we as warmly returned: the shakings 

 of hands were past number, and the Belooches and 

 Bombay could scarcely be seen moving under the hot 



