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statement of the remedy for fever, and an account of its operation. 

 He had been led to think of this from seeing in the News of the 

 Churches for February 1861a reference to his remedy in an account 

 of the death of the Helmores. The proportions of the several 

 ingredients are given — " for a full-grown man six or eight grains of 

 resin of jalap, and the same amount of rhubarb, with four grains 

 of calomel, and four of quinine, made into pills with spirit of 

 cardamoms. On taking effect, quinine (not the unbleached kind), 

 in four grains or larger doses is given every two hours or so, till 

 the ears ring, or deafness ensues ; this last is an essential part of 

 the cure." 



The last part of the letter is a description of Lake Nyassa, and 

 a statement of its importance for purposes of civilisation and 

 Christianity. 



The News of the Churches was projected in 1854 by the 

 late Eev. Andrew Cameron, D.D., and the present writer, and 

 conducted by them for a time ; in 1862 it was in the hands of the 

 Eev. Gavin Carlyle, now of Ealing. 



No. III. 



LETTER TO DR. TIDMAN, AS TO FUTURE OPERATIONS. 



Quilimane, 23d May 1856. 



The Eev. Dr. Tidman. 



Dear Sir, — Having by the good providence of our Heavenly 

 Father reached this village on the 20th curt., I was pleased to find 

 a silence of more than four years broken by your letter of the 

 24th August 1855. I found also that H.M.'s brigantine "Dart" 

 had called at this port several times in order to offer me a passage 

 homewards, but on the last occasion in which this most friendly 

 act was performed, her commander, with an officer of marines and 

 five seamen, were unfortunately lost on the very dangerous bar at 

 the mouth of the Quilimane river. This sad event threw a cold 

 shade over all the joy I might otherwise have experienced on 

 reaching the Eastern Coast. I felt as if it would have been easier 

 for me to have died for them than to bear the thought of so many 



