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of Chibisa, and thence by the pass Zedi, down to the Shire. 

 And it was well that they got to the ship when they did ; for 

 our excellent Quartermaster, John Walker, who had been 

 left in charge, had been very ill of fever all the time of 

 their absence; while those who had been roughing it for 

 twenty-two days on the hills, and sleeping every night, except 

 one, in the open air, came back well and hearty. Rowe, his 

 companion, who had charge of the medicine, had not given 

 him any, because he did not know what his illness was. 

 One can scarcely mistake the fever if he attends to the 

 symptoms already enumerated, or remembers that almost 

 every complaint in this country is a form of fever, or is 

 modified by the malaria. Walker's being a very severe 

 case, a large dose of calomel was at once administered. 

 This sometimes relieves when other remedies fail, but 

 the risk of salivation must be run. When 20 grains are 

 taken, it may cause an abundant flow of bile, and a cure be 

 the result. This is mentioned not as a course to be followed, 

 except when other remedies fail, or when jaundice super- 

 venes. We have seen a case of this kind cured by a large 

 dose of calomel, when a blister put on the pit of the stomach, 

 to allay vomiting, brought out serum as black as porter, as 

 if the blood had been impregnated with bile. These hints are 

 given, though we believe, as we have before stated, . that no 

 Mission or Expedition ought to enter the country, without a 

 skilful surgeon as an essential part of its staff. 



Quartermaster Walker soon recovered, though, from the 

 long continuance of the fever, his system was very much 

 more shaken than it would have been, had the medicine been 

 administered at once. The Kroomen had, while we were away, 

 cut a good supply of wood for steaming, and we soon pro- 

 ceeded down the river. 



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