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TEAVELS IN CENTEAL AEEICA. 
BOULAC, 
“ April > 
We really are to leave for England this month! ! ! As 
no charge has been made against Petherick by onr own or the 
Egyptian. Government he feels at liberty to depart. The Ewings 
have kindly invited ns to spend the last few days with them in 
Cairo. Onr desert traps will then he sold : a pnrchaser was soon 
found for the ^ Kathleen.^ Did I tell yon that whilst we were in 
her^ at Eoda, Lady Duff Gordon came to inspect her? bnt she was 
too small for her reqnirements. Lady Duff Gordon is a remark- 
ably handsome woman : she is charmed with life in the East.'^ 
“AMEKICAN MISSION-HOUSE, 
‘‘ Cairo, 
“ April, 
^^We are with onr kind friends^ the Ewings. Snch a 
happy calm is experienced in this Christian^ genial community I 
Polly and the fowls will go with ns home, bnt the dove died 
this morning ; driving here^ the coachman accidentally whipped out 
one of the eyes of the little bird ; all our care was of no avail ; it 
was^ however^ a solitary bird since the death of its companion. 
The Consul-General, Consul Eeade, and his wife have called 
to see ns, and many more. Yon remember ^ little Dorrit,^ as we 
called her, who was to have accompanied ns to Khartoum and the 
interior, bnt who fell in love and married here, declaring that the 
hazardous journey would kill her, and therefore she would not 
proceed ? Alas, Mona ! she is dead. At my request her husband 
called to give me particulars. Cholera carried her off in a few 
hours : she is interred in the Protestant Cemetery outside Cairo. 
