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time; Gibson, Eclmonstone, Charley Edmonstone, and 
myself eventually, but not for nearly twelve months, 
got better again. We were all, I think, carried out of 
the wagons in Durban more dead than alive, and I 
shall never forget the very great kindness and atten¬ 
tion I received from Mr. and Mrs. Tyzack, to whose 
house I first w T ent on landing in the colony, and where 
I was now taken. In the course of a few weeks, I 
was able, by the advice of my physician, to go up 
to Pieter Maritzburg for change of air, where Mr. 
Collins, the post-master and a fellow-passenger of 
mine, most kindly took me into his house, treated 
me with the utmost attention, and forestalled my 
every want. It is to Mrs. Collins’s nursing and care 
— and all the little delicacies, so grateful and 
refreshing to a sick man, which a woman’s fore¬ 
thought can alone supply—that I am indebted for 
my eventual recovery, after a very long illness. 
On first getting into the scales, on being able, with 
assistance, to get about a little, I only weighed 
five stone and eleven pounds; but laid on weight 
again, shortly after, almost as fast as I must have 
lost it, and regained strength altogether, on the high 
lands of the Inanda, about twenty-two miles from 
Durban and nine from the sea, where I joined 
White on a 9,600 acre farm of Proudfoot’s, built a 
w^attle and dab-house, and existed there, almost 
alone — I can hardly call it living — for two years 
or more, I should think, selling cattle to Kaffirs, 
which White traded in the Zulu country and brought 
