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TEAVELS IN CENTEAL AFEICA. 
“I wrote to you from Cassala, but I cannot be sure of my 
letters reaching you ; thus, if I can, I will send this by special 
messenger, when I shall hope shortly to hear from you. 
“ Ever very truly yours, 
- “SAMUEL W. BAKEE.” 
“ KATAEIFF, 
November 28t/i, 1861. 
“My beae Petheeick, 
“ I received your letter of the 29th October on the 16th 
inst., and I regret much to hear that you and Mrs. Petherick 
are suffering from fever. I trust the cool season will do more 
than medicine, and restore you thoroughly. I thank you 
and her most heartily for your welcome, so kindly offered. 
Thank Grod, my medicine-chest has been used only for relieving 
the people of this fever- stricken country, and its contents have 
been all but untasted by me for many months. The German, 
Elorian, is a great sufferer, and nearly all the natives have 
enlarged spleens — the effect of repeated fever. 
“ I am here only for a few days. I shall not hurry on to 
Khartoum, as I should be sure to miss you, as you leave during 
next month ; but after having gone through the Base country 
and visited JSTimmur (who sent me a polite invitation a few days 
ago,) I shall cross the Eahad and Bender far south, and, crossing 
the Blue Kile, I shall keep a south-west course to reach the 
White Kile in some distant point, and then wait for the return 
of the Khartoum boats, when I may have the good luck, B.V., 
to meet you and give you the hearty shake of the hand that two 
Englishmen delight in when so far from the old mother. 
“ Will Mrs. Petherick accompany you up the White Kile ? 
“ If this letter catches you, will you kindly, if it he possible^ 
send me on a man who can speak either English, French, or 
