marked b y aneroid as 5400 feet above the level
o f the ocean.
Edward Pocock was reported b y F r a n k to
have muttered in his delirium, “ The master has
ju s t hit it,” and to have said that he felt v e ry
comfortable. On arriving at the camp, one o f
the boat sections was elevated above him as a
protection from the sun, until a cool grass hut
could be erected. A stockade was being constructed
b y piling a thick fence o f brushwood
around a spacious circle, along which grass huts
were fast being built, when Frank entreated me
to step to his brother’s side. I sprang to him
— only in time, however, to see him take his
last gasp. Frank g a v e a shriek o f sorrow when
he realized that the spirit o f his brother had
fled for ever, and, removing the boat section,
bent over the corpse and wailed in a paroxysm
o f agony.
W e excavated a grave 4 feet deep at the foot
o f a hoary acacia with wide-spreading branches,
and on its ancient trunk Frank engraved a deep
cross, the emblem o f the faith we all believe
in, and, when folded in its shroud, we laid the
b o d y in its final resting-place during the last
gleams o f sunset. W e read the beautiful prayers
o f the church service for the dead, and, out of
respect for the departed, whose frank, sociable,
and winning manners had won their iriendship
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and regard, nearly all the Wangwana were
present to pay a last tribute o f sighs to poor
Edward Pocock.
When the last solemn prayer had been read,
we retired to our tents, to brood in sorrow and
silence over our irreparable loss.