After eliciting the exact purport of the message I desired to send, and meditating for some moments, she wrote and read out to me words literally translated as follows:-- "The rich aviary my flower-bird thought over full.

I would breathe home [air].

Health-speak." The sense of which, as I could already understand, was-- "A splendid mansion has been given us, but my flower-bird has found it too full.

I wish for my native air.

Prescribe." The brevity of the message was very characteristic of the language.
Equally characteristic of the stylography was the fact that the words occupied about an inch beyond the address.