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THE LAKE REGIONS OF CENTRAL AFRICA. 



crossing and re-crossing three times the tedious line, 

 we found ourselves anchored, on the 16th April, near 

 the ill-omened black walls of the Aden crater. 



The crisis of my African sufferings had taken place 

 during my voyage upon the Tanganyika Lake: the 

 fever, ho\\ r ever, still clung to me like the shirt of 

 Nessus. Mr. Apothecary Frost, of Zanzibar, had ad- 

 vised a temporary return to Europe : Dr. Steinhaeuser, 

 the civil surgeon, Aden, also recommended a lengthened 

 period of rest. I bade adieu to the coal-hole of the 

 East on the 28th April, 1859, and in due time greeted 

 with becoming heartiness the shores of my native 

 land. 



FINIS CORONAT OPUS ! 



The Elephant Rock ('A/cpwTTjpiov 'EAe<£as, Periplus II. )> seen from fifteen 



miles at sea, direction S.W. 



