I§0 THOMAS J. COMBER. 
increased by tidings from the Pool of Miss Spearing’s 
death. 
On the 26th of April, Mr. Comber was at Banana, 
to place Mrs. Darling on board the steamer which 
would convejTher back to England. The following 
day he wrote to his father : — “ As the Portuguese is 
just in, I 'm going to take a sea-trip for eighteen days 
— to Mossamedes — towards the Cape, returning in 
same steamer. I 'm a little run down bodily and 
mentally, and need this little rest. . . . What has 
happened has much unhinged me. The 19th of 
March, 1887, is a sad day in my calendar, already full 
enough of sad entries. It is all so perplexing, and 
one knows not what to say. God is over all, and 
does all wisely and lovingly. This we know.” 
After this sea- trip he returned to Underhill, but 
was little benefited by the change. 
