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times through Mrs. T., who will be my principal correspondent. 

 And now let me thank you for your thoughtfulness in pro- 

 viding me with a nice flexible limp Prayer Book, very fit for 

 the pocket, and I hope to be kept there for convenient use in 

 the bush, on the sea, on some rocky crag of the coast, or on the 

 snowy range in New South Wales, perhaps at the diggings. Tt 

 was very good of you to think of this. It will at least insure 

 your being in my mind at its best seasons, when it is most 

 open, and consequently most fitted for remembrance. I shall 

 also take my own old book, the companion of my rambles for 

 seventeen years, and the gift of a dear old friend also. 



Mr. Ward and two of his daughters have been to Ireland to see 

 us, and are now at Plymouth on their return. He is travelling 

 for his health, and came to Ireland chiefly to see me before I 

 should set out on my travels. My passage is taken on board 

 the Eipon to Alexandria, and by another steamer to Ceylon, 

 my first stopping-place. 



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