CHAPTER XXXI 



NIANGARA 



The next mormng (June 11) we set out to return to Niangara, 

 taking with us many presents of fowls and eggs and bedongo 

 from the king. 



We arrived in Niangara at noon and lunched with Com- 

 mandant Sarolea, which made an agreeable finish to a 

 delightful trip. 



The return ride had been very hot. I noticed that towards 

 the end Gosling seemed to teel it very much. Always 

 plucky, however, he went through luncheon in good spirits 

 and talked brightly, saying how very much he had enjoyed 

 the trip and how greatly struck he had been by the native 

 dance. 



After lulicheon we returned to our quarters, and then 

 with appalling suddenness the symptoms of blackwater 

 reappeared. He at once went to bed and I called Doctor 

 Cammermeyer, the medical ofl&cer of the station. The 

 doctor pronounced the case very serious, coming as it did 

 hardly three months after the first attack. He was loath 

 to tell Gosling the gravity of his condition, but his merciful 

 intentions were useless ; the poor fellow knew only too well 

 for himself, and after the doctor had left, said : " What is the 

 good of him beating about the bush like this — why can't he 

 tell me straight out I have blackwater ? " Gosling slept 



