came up.

then a perfect sponge. However, we lodged the horse somehow. Then F. had two Barbary goats, which she had ordered on the lemur's death, thinking they were pretty, soft, hairy things, instead of which there arrived two days ago, large, smooth bleak-looking English goats. However, she told me to take the greatest care of them when they At twelve, a coolie without a stitch. of clothes on, walked in with a Barbary kid on his back, stiff and stark. No interpreter at hand, so where the mother was, remained a mystery. F. might have fancied to her dying hour that I had let her Barbary goats die— nobody ever thinks their children or pets are properly taken care of; so I set off rubbing, and made my two boys, Soobratta and Ameer, rub the kid too, and we poured hot things down its throat. We should have been worth millions to the Humane Society, but the kid would not come to. Then I made them dig a hole in the outer tent and put charcoal in it, and when it was quite hot we took out the charcoal and put in the kid -just like singing a pig; but it was a bright idea and quite cured it. Just as we had got the little brute on its legs, the mother was brought in, and we went through the same process with

her. When they were quite well, they were also sent to sleep in the khenauts.

The bandsmen, who are chiefly Europeans, came to say they had no shelter.

Sleep in the khenauts,' was the only answer; and we gave them what remained of our dinner, for the kitchen was under water. Mr. arrived, and I asked him to dinner too. It is fine to-day, and the tents came up in the middle of the night. We have got a paper of the 24th November, so the overland has arrived, and G. will bring us some letters to-morrow.

Saturday, Feb. 2.

And he has brought plenty-your's and E.'s journals amongst others.

Mahem, Tuesday, Feb. 5.

I was taken with a worse attack of ague than ever, as I was writing to you on Saturday, and was obliged to go to bed for two days. Luckily it went off just before marching time yesterday morning, and I am taking narcotine at all convenient hours. I believe it is a remedy that has been invented in this country-at all events introduced, by Dr. O'Shaughnessy. Dr. D. has tried it in many cases, and it has never failed

where the patients can bear it, but it makes many people quite giddy and delirious. I do not mind it at all, and am much better to-day. Two of our bearers, old servants, are dying of cholera from that last wetting.

CHAPTER VII.

Wednesday, Feb. 6, 1839. ANOTHER rainy night, and we have come on to another sloppy encampment, and I am sorry to say those bearers, and two more, have died of cholera to-day, all owing to the wet, Dr. D. says. The magistrate here has politely offered us his house to-morrow, and as Captain P. sends back word he cannot find dry ground for half the dripping tents, U. Hall will be a God-send.

Thursday, Feb. 7.

Dear U.! such a nice, dry, solid house. I suppose it would strike us as small on common occasions, but it looks to me now like the dryest, best built, most solid little palace I ever inhabited, what people call 'quite Palladian.' I rather like hitting myself a good hard knock against the thick solid walls, and then the pleasure of walking along the hard floor without fur

slippers and without hearing the ground squelch! The quiet, too, is worth its weight in gold (though how it is to be weighed I don't quite know).

F. and W. went out coursing this evening. G. was detained by letters just as he and I were going out, so I thought it would be polite and sent to ask U. to go out with X. and me; and he brought me a little wooden cup of his own turning with which I was obliged to be quite delighted, in fact I was; it was a very good little cup, and then he said, 'I did it from recollection of the famous vase in the Vatican.

say

Does it remind you of Rome?' I could luckily I had never been there, but I am not very sure that that little box-wood cup and the mud walls of U.'s house would naturally have brought Rome into my mind.

Sunday evening, Feb. 10. We went into our tents again on Friday, with a long march of fifteen miles. The tents were still damp. By twelve o'clock I began to shiver, tried to go out in the afternon and came back in a regular shake, had a horrid night, and after yesterday morning's march was obliged to go to bed again with violent head-ache and fever. It has gone off this afternoon, and the day's