In this state did J.find me on his return from England.

His family was up in Aaleih, and he used to ride over occasionally to see P.and prescribe some new medicine for him, but his skill was baffled with this terrifying disease, and poor P.remained in this agonizing state of suffering for five whole months without leaving his bed.

He was carried down on a litter to Beirut, where he has been since.

He took a little room by himself, and gives lessons in English until something more prosperous turns up for him.

Twenty years' experience seemed to be added to my life in those three months of anxiety I went through last summer; and what a picture of suffering and grief was I, after this, myself.