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stand. However, he declared that there was nothing really 

 the matter mth him, and that it was only a shght fever which 

 would soon pass off. Next day he seemed to be a little 

 better and we moved on a mile or two to Kwoiangia, where he 

 again had to go to bed. 



" On October 6 I left him, as he would not hear of my 

 stopping to look after him, and said that he hoped to rejoin 

 me soon. But next day, there came a message to say he 

 was worse and to ask me to go to him at once. He complained 

 of severe pains, but we neither of us could think what was the 

 matter, as it certainly was not an ordinary attack of malaria. 

 He thought that it might be due to some native honey which 

 had been brought in and of which he had eaten a good deal 

 of wax. 



'' As he grew no better, I sent in to Fort Maifoni, which was 

 only about four hours' distant, and asked the doctor to come 

 out and see him, A message came back to say that the latter 

 had gone off with most of the troops and some Kanuri on an 

 expedition against that section of the Marragi, who lived on 

 the Maifoni- Yola road. I, therefore, sent on after them to 

 ask the doctor to return as soon as possible, and later on, as 

 Claud grew worse, sent another messenger with a still more 

 urgent request. The pain in the meantime had grown so 

 terrible that I sent in to Fort Maifoni for an instrument by 

 which I thought it possible to relieve him. Boiling baths 

 had only a shght effect, and just before the instruments 

 arrived, the agony had grown so intolerable that he told me 

 it would be impossible to last out more than an hour or two 

 longer. About midnight. Farmer galloped in through the 

 darkness. Immediately on receipt of my letter, he had seized 



