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if I did not_, I must tell you how very kind Miss Tinne was to me, 
visiting me often_, and always consoling ; I was ill all the time 
there,, I believe chiefly from fright. One day^ a hundred or more 
of Albanian soldiers in the Pasha^s employ came on board the 
^ Kathleen ^ when Petherick was on shore^ and there were only 
two of our servants on board. Their remonstances were unheeded,, 
and the soldiers would come into the cabins and stare at me. I 
could not be divested of the belief that Petherick had been cruelly 
treated^ and was regarded as powerless, or these men would not have 
thus behaved. I again became delirious, and when he returned I 
begged him show me his feet — I thought he had been bastinadoed. 
And up to this time even, the old horror returns, and he has again 
and again to assure me that such an outrage was never committed 
upon him. I had so mixed up an atrocity which Moosa Pasha 
had inflicted upon an old servant who arrived at Khartoum after 
we left, and who fled from thence, joining us at Berber, where he 
recounted his wrongs ; therefore if Petherick absented himself even 
for a short time, I imagined he had been in the Pasha^s power. 
You can judge, sister dear, how changed I must be. I had too a 
severe attack of erysipelas at that place, brought on by constantly 
having cans of water poured over my head whenever it was be- 
coming confused. I am indebted to the French Consul at Berber, 
Monsieur Lafargue, for an infallible cure for that distressing com- 
plaint, which cannot be too widely known. 
After seeing me, he sent an elderly, genial Arab woman to be 
my doctor ; she simply clarified a little fresh butter, adding to it 
as much fine salt as the butter would absorb, this was rubbed gently 
into the parts affected for ten minutes, repeated every hour or two, 
and in three days the cure was complete. 
Foxcroft left us at Berber : he liked not the idea of returnino: 
