CONSUL CAMEEON A PEISONER. 
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little band of Europeans received from the hands of Theodore, has 
written to say the Consul is now a prisoner in Theodore^s camp. 
Petherick waits with impatience the reply to his request for au- 
thority from our Government to proceed to their aid. Perhaps, as 
Petherick is no longer Consul, and as Earl Eussel says one is no 
longer required for those latitudes, red tape will tie the hands of 
the officials, and the captives may linger ^ in durance vile.^ 
“ KALLAKLA, 
“White Nile, 
“ March 315 ^. 
Sister dear, 
I enclose a letter to Mr. Tinne : it contains sad news. 
Peter will give it to him, I know full well, with every tender con- 
sideration. Poor Madame Tinne is dead. I have a few hours in 
which to write, and by degrees, perhaps, shall gather strength to 
give you particulars. I am ill to-day, the reaction of yesterday^s 
tax. 
^^Mona, Miss Capellan is an angel upon earth, and there are 
so few that I trust God will let her remain yet awhile ; but much 
I fear that she will join those, too soon, whom she saw in dreams 
so vividly the last few nights. It was but the day before yesterday 
(and yet it seems a year) that she came out to pass some little 
time with us. Petherick and Mr. Joyce rode to Khartoum, and 
then she and I had our chat. Talking always of those so dear to 
her, she said, I must tell you my dreams : last night I saw my 
lovely mother and my dead sister — the one next to me ; they held 
out their arms from the bright clouds to take me there, and I was 
so happy. Then I awoke, but to sleep again and to dream of 
