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night, they refused to carry longer, when she had to walk. 

 After a terrible journey of five honrs duration she reached 

 the sympithy and comforts of the Pulace — kindnesses which 

 will be treasured by ns both as long as we live. 



We returned at once to our home at Fatuuaba, whoso beauty 

 w[is as fresh to us as ever, and it was imjjossible not to feel that 

 there ooiUd be no fairer spot for a dwelling* I had sufBcient to 

 oecui»y me for several days in arranging the herbarium already 

 in the drying-house, and when three days later, the giant jmek- 

 ages collected between 8aluki and Laclo arrived I had work for 

 several weeks. We had not Tong settled when A- — - was again 

 laid down with a most violent type of fever which then seemed 

 to be specitdly epidemic in Dilly, and to which one of the 

 Governor's sons succumbed in a sudden paroxysm. As these 

 attacks, tiotwithstanding all the remedies trietl, daily became 

 more severe, we decided that as I had accomplished all that was 

 possible in Timor, and as uothmg in the Avay of fitting out for 

 my next journey to the high mountains of South-Eaateru New 

 Guinea could be done in IHlly, our wisest course was to return 

 to Europe by the mail due about the 3rd of June, 



On the 30th of May, on coming out at daylight into tho 

 verandah, I was thunderstruck to see the mail steaming into 

 the harljour — when there was not half of our baggage packed, 

 and all the porters to find. Hu^rrying down to Dilly, 1 learned 

 that there would be no other steamer for five weeks, but that 

 The Lamhenje would remain till next evening. Through 

 Senhor Albino's kind aid I obtained a company of men in 

 charge of a sergeant, and, hastening back to Fatunaba, packed 

 up my collections and such articles as we most valued, as it 

 was evident that all our belongings could not possibly be 

 transported in the short time at our disposal. The Timorese 

 carriers and A/s old ape-like woman — though she did not 

 deserre it — ^were made frantically happy by rewards of house- 

 hold gear and paraphernalia, plates, spoons, knives, cooking 

 utensils, old meat-tins, and gifts of such trade articles as 

 mirrors, beads, and kerchiefs, as had escaped the notice of 

 the thieves. 



We were forced to leave behind us tho whole rude furnish- 

 ings of the house — stoves, lamps, water- tanks, cans of petro- 

 leum, stools, gunpowder and shot, and a considerable store 



