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accompaniment of African fever. In a couple of days, 

 however, he was better again, so that he even went 

 out hunting. But this apparent improvement un- 

 happily proved delusive, and it soon became evident 

 that he was suffering from an attack of fever. And 

 now he continued for some days, with slight fluc- 

 tuations, better and worse till the 29th, when his 

 condition became alarming. Throughout his entire 

 journey up country from the Makalakas as far as 

 the Pandamatenga he had been engaged in taking 

 careful observations of the country, and noting the 

 various watering-places along the road, and this he 

 continued to do on his way back, to check his former 

 notes. His regular Journal had been again discon- 

 tinued on the 2 2d, but he still made some brief 

 jottings of the route until the 31st of the month, 

 when, such was his condition, even these had also 

 to be abandoned, and he continued very ill till the 

 morning of the 5th of February, when there was a 

 decided change in him for the better. 



During the whole of this time Dr. Bradshaw had 

 remained with or near him, and Mr. Westbeech had 

 kindly lent him the services of one of his own boys, 

 who could speak a little English. There was now 

 . every reason, so far as the traveller was himself con- 

 cerned — and had been ever since he first showed 

 signs of illness — for the party to make all speed 

 upon their journey south. Once at Tati he would 

 be in a place of comparative civilization, affording 

 greater comfort for an invalid, and in a far better 

 climate. Travelling is also usually found to be bene- 



