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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: stood a little Arabic, though he could not pronounce it according to Mullens notions, but he wrote it; and singularly enough, he put the paper not in the customary oriental manner before him, nor writing the letters from the top downwards, but so, that they must be read in the usual manner. I have his name and mine written by him. I had understood his name as Makola. According to Miiller, what he wrote, is in the Algerine dialect, meaning: Machmakal. Saturday, September 18.?The number of sick increases considerably; and the Soudan'5 is to take them to-morrow down to the sea. I, therefore, wrote letters to-day. I continue unwell; head-ache and fever. WRITTEN LATER, AT FERNANDO PO. Sunday, September 19.?Decided, but slight fever. The Soudan leaves for the sea. Monday, September 20.?It is settled that the Wilber- force shall also proceed to sea with the sick, which have much increased in number; and my first resolve was to remain here; but our circumstances on shore were such, that as an invalid, I could hardly hope to be comfortable, and I therefore take Captain Allen's advice, which is to go down to sea in the Wilberforce/' and stop at Fernando Po. Tuesday, September 21.?At six oclock in the morning we proceeded down the river, I becoming daily worse. We arrived at Fernando Po on the 1st of October, and I earnestly entreated to be put on shore; for the vessel was to proceed to Ascension Island, and stop there several months; which would have been for me worse than a prison. On leaving the ship I had still violent fever, which only quitted me after a week and a half. In the landing of my collection I was kindly assisted by Mr. Forster. Of several of the most interesting fruits, however, which, until disabled, I had kept on deck to dry, nothing was to be seen....
| ISBN-13 | 9780217518918 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217518915 |
| Weight | 1.71 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.19 In |
| List Price | $26.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 532 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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