68 Seven Years in the Sojidan.

At midniglit I Avas attacked "with violent headache, and by morning I had a violent fever. I took a dose of quinine, but my stomach, though it was then of iron, could not digest it, and the fever continued for four consecutive days, during which time T lost all consciousness. I onh' remember that I aAvoke on the fifth day as weak as if I had been in bed several months. I continued nevertheless the treatment with the ([uinine, taking eighteen grains a day. On the 18th J began to improve, but was still verj'- weak. Anson had nursed me as Avell as he could, but he liad always been in great apprehension, fearing tliat I should not recover.

The captain of the steamer had even spoken to him about how he was to bury me.

On the 18th Anson was also seized with violent headache, and immediately adopted my treatment.

Three da's before, we had left that unhealthy spot, and had arrived at the mouth of the AVhite Xile, where we had to take in tow a dahabia which had on board the new governor of Gabe-Shambe, and towed three nugars laden with doora.

Poor Anson could not digest the medicine, and rejected it as soon as swallowed, as well as the lightest nourishment. Xotwithstandiug the state in which I was, I had myself carried near his bed, but his prostration increased, and he could not even SAvallow a fcAV spoonfuls of tea. The malady grew worse with such rapidity on the night of the 27th of July that the next day at three in the afternoon Anson expired in ni}- arms. One can imagine my sorrow in the state in which I was ; I wept over his remains as if I had lost a brother. Poor Anson I he was hardl} twenty-one, of a gentle and affectionate character. He always listened respectfully to my advice, though he was in a certain way independent of me. Since our departure from Cairo we had taken a strong liking to each other, and at Khartoum he had begged the Colonel to appoint him