I sent two of them back to bring up two comrades, left behind yesterday.

All who have done work are comparatively strong.
[We may venture a word in passing on the subject of native recruits, enlisted for service in Africa, and who return thither after a long absence.

All the Nassick boys were native-born Africans, and yet we see one of them succumb immediately.

The truth is that natives; under these circumstances, are just as liable to the effects of malaria on landing as Europeans, although it is not often that fever assumes a dangerous form in such cases.

The natives of the interior have the greatest dread of the illnesses which they say are sure to be in store for them if they visit the coast.] _19th June, 1866._--I gave the sepoys light loads in order to inure them to exercise and strengthen them, and they carried willingly so long as the fright was on them, but when the fear of immediate punishment wore off they began their skulking again.