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Principat MEDICAL Orricer, Niger Territories, to ROYAL NIGER 
COMPANY. 
: Medical s Asaba, 
My Ей dm eee May 1890. 
ery sorry to inform pn ve Mr. H. E. Bartlett, 
of the aria Plantation, tied on May 16, 1890. 
Cause of death: Remittent fever; uremia; exhaustio 
The fever was of a very severe type, known on the otal as blackwater 
fever, ie, a form 2 — — in which one of the leading 
symptoms is the passing of u f a port wine, or nearly black, 
colour. I was in constant Бегай on him, and was with him when 
he а, 
as buried by ће Rev. Н. Н. Dobinson, of the Church Mis- 
iy oblati] who saw him more than once before he died. 
I am, &c. 
(Signed) W. Н. CROSSE, 
The Royal Niger Company, Principal Medical Officer, 
Chartered and Limited. Niger Territories. 
LETTER from 9. WOODRUFF. 
Botanical Plantation, Abutshi, 
iger Territories, 
DEAR ——, 
You will have heard before this of Bartlett’s death, "I had just 
left him and gone back to Abutshi, and was busy reading bei kind 
and welcomed letter when the doctor sent to tell us. I never i 
= would be out here long, but I thought he might home agit He 
as sick nearly all the time he lived. Our work is very trying out 
Web having to be out most of the day. АП other Europeans never go 
out but very little in the hot part of the day; but until we are well 
established it will be nothing but hard work, and unless a man is 
thorough practical gardener he will find it very hard here, as every- 
pref is from the commencement; it is very different to going н 
ne made for you, and it takes very little worry to 
you Palok here 
will not be so hard in two or three years time. It is not only 
сие your work, but you must know how to manage men and уе 
able to teach them, as when you get them they cannot use a spade 
ду A ре it hard now, as I am A ce at Seti own place sid 
I am pleased to "AO getting my plantation 
es pers a iiis like а botanic garden. It = ттт 84 acres, and by the 
end of this year I hope to have it most all planted. When the Earl 
taking the plants all poor ee looking so healthy. While I was 
at Lagos for plants, I paid a visit to the Botanical Station, and was well 
received by Mr. uite the ау It looks to be about 34 acres. 
We also went to St. Thomas’s Island for coffee and cocoa plants. I 
did not see much of the island, е the flora appears to be similar to 
the Niger. We have about 2 3,000 coffee and 27,000 cocoa to be 
planted this year at the new place Bartlett started. I have collected — 4 
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