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Excerpt from Adventures in Mashonaland
The hospital-patients - Work - Contrivances - Project of brick hospital - Poultry yard - Capricious hens - Mashona cows The bread question - Our baker Attempts to bake himself A breadless community - Montague Bowden - His last game of cricket - His illness and death - Scaring off wild beasts The funeral - Our dispenser on the burst - Opium poison ing - Dispenser attempts suicide - Imprisoned - Our protest Dispenser dismissed - Illness of Sister Lucy - Flight of natives - A terrible week - Drink - An extraordinary bill - Departure of magistrate - The reign of Law in Manica - Birth of first English child in Mashonaland - Serious illness of Mrs. Tulloch -our huts burnt to the ground - Narrow escape of Mrs. Tulloch - A tipsy fire brigade - Generosity - Arrival of Dr. Matthew Johnston - Our patient saved - Christening of Cecil.
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