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try and induce me to follow, as the faithful fellow 
always returned to look me up. I at last, however, 
reached the wagons completely exhausted, and very, 
very ill, and shall have a wholesome recollection of 
that walk as long as I live. Found Gibson and Charley 
Edmonstone very ill, and joined them. Monies, 
Gibson, and Price arrived the same night without the 
boat, not being able to pull up against the stream, or 
to get her carried by Kaffirs. I was very much worn 
out from the cold and incessant rain. 
On the 16th we started for Katal, and I can give 
from this date but a very poor account of anything 
more that occurred, as I must have had many days’ 
insensibility myself. What I do recollect was that 
Arbuthnot and Monies joined the wagons again on the 
20th, after two very hard days’ elephant-hunting on 
foot, during which Arbuthnot killed one. Arbuthnot 
complained of being very ill, and threw himself down 
in the hut, from which he never rose, dying the fol¬ 
lowing day of fever and ague. We made the best of 
our way to Katal to get advice for the rest of the 
sick, but on reaching our destination poor Price died 
also, within forty miles of the town. Monies stayed 
behind to bring out another wagon, having never 
had an hour’s illness, when he suddenly took despe¬ 
rately ill, and died next day. M c Queen reached 
Durban, where he died in a few days, though he 
never went into the unhealthy country at all; Purver, 
Hammond, and Etty, three elephant-hunters of White’s 
party, also died in the Zulu country about the same 
