In Afric’s Forest and Jungle 
As I rode into the gate he threw his arms around 
me and dragged me from my horse. Soon all 
the children of the mission compound were 
clinging to my hands and my knees, frantic 
with delight. Freeing myself from these 1 
rushed into the house and met my wife, pale 
and tottering, at the door of her room, and all 
our troubles were over for one while, anyhow. 
In a short time all the converts and many of 
the neighbors crowded in to hear the story of 
my deliverance, ahd the joy they manifested was 
very gratifying. In a few days both my wife 
and myself felt almost as well as usual, so much 
has the mental to do with the physical, especially 
in this strange climate. 
From the time of leaving Ebaddan until reaching 
Ejahyay, my head had been protected from the 
sun by nothing but a brimless cloth cap and my 
neck and face were badly blistered, but I did not 
receive any enduring injury from this dangerous 
exposure. It is possible that starvation and ex¬ 
citement may have been used as instruments by 
a merciful Providence to save me from fatal sun¬ 
stroke. During the ten days of my adventure, I 
did not eat as much as 1 ordinarily ate in a single 
day. 
In relating her experience during this trying 
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