A hut was given them, and there was plenty of wholesome food on the island.
Inaction, is, however the most fatal curse in that land of fever.

There is a cheerful letter written by the Bishop to his home friends, on the 14th and 15th of January; but his vigour was flagging.

He spoke with disappointment of the inability of Dr.Livingstone to bring up stores to Chibisa's, and longed much for his sisters' arrival, telling his companion it would break his heart if they did not now come.

He also wrote a strong letter to the Secretary of the Universities' Mission, begging for a steam launch to keep up the supplies, where the _Pioneer_ had failed.

Soon after this, both became grievously ill; the Bishop's fever grew violent, he perceived his danger, and told the Malokolo that JESUS would come to take him, but he presently became delirious and insensible, in which condition he lay for five days, the Malokolo waiting on him as well as they could under Burrup's superintendence.
The negro tribes have an exceeding dread of death, and a hut which has had a corpse in it is shut up for three years.