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5 few days, whilst I was still in a state to be ee {
6 quitted his house, which is situated in the fort, ‘and
7 came to occupy a convenient and spacious apartment at
8 the. quarter of the sick officers, which is in the most
9 airy and salubrious situation, on the sea-shore, and a
10 hundred paces distant from my physician, Doctor Mac
11 Lennan, the most able at Bombay, and the admirable
12 care he has bestowed upon me, has long since attached
13 me to him as a dear friend.
14 The cruellest pang, my dear Porphyre, for those we
15 love, is, that when dying in a far distant land, they
16 imagine that in the last hours of our existence we are
17 deserted and unnoticed. My dear friend, you will no
18 doubt. reap some consolation from the assurance I give
19 you that I have never ceased being the object of the
20 kindest and most affectionate solicitude of a number of
21 good and amiable men. They continually come to see
22 me, anticipating even my sick-bed caprices and whims.
23 Mr. Nicol especially, Mr. John Bar, one of the mem-
24 bers of the government, Mr. Goodfellow, an old colonel
25 of engineers, and Major Mountain, a very amiable
26 young officer, and many others whose names I do not
27 mention.
28 The excellent Doctor. Mac Lennan, nearly endan-
29 gered his own health for me, by coming twice a night,
30 during a crisis which seemed to leave no chance of my
31 recovery. ‘I place the most unlimited confidence in his
32 abilities.
33 My sufferings were at first very great, but for some