parallel to the sea for many miles, is sixty miles wide. There is never any typhoid fever quinine is needed against ague, or, as they call it, "chill and fever." They now use barks of willow, &c. Quinine comes from Peru; its discovery is curious. In a certain district the people never had ague, and it was found they drank water from cisterns where the chinchona-trees grew. Some doctor then had the leaves prepared, and hence quinine-a blessing to the human race.

September 17th.-A letter from Captain Wtold us that General Bragg's army had marched 300 miles in seventeen days (in twelve marching days), from Harrison's Landing, on the Tennessee River, to Bardstone, in Kentucky, thirty miles from Louisville.

Through the kindness of Mr. Molyneux, I had ascertained the sailing days of the Cunard steamers, and I fixed on the 5th of November, the "Australasian," reckoning to return to my flock at Ardeley after six months' absence. From all I saw around me a blessing had been on my "Errand to the South." The lady who had been cast down with anxiety and sadness was now buoyant with hope. Her husband had been chosen M.P. for George Town, which would entitle him to furlough. Yet

painful was my leave-taking-the negroes were much affected-the feeling was mutual.

On the 18th of October my compagnons de voyage were Mr. Swinnie, a shoemaker, who had left Ireland in 1848, and was settled at Marion, and a coachbuilder of Charlotte, who had been on the coast burning salt-it took 300 gallons of sea-water to make one barrel of salt. Land about Charlotte in North Carolina is very productive; their cows are kept as horses in stalls. At Fair Bluff met Dr. Frincke, who has a plantation near Little River, South Carolina, in All Saints parish; he agrees with me that the parish is too large. Here is work for the Church Convention of the South, who has no need to wait for an Act of Parliament to "lengthen her cords, strengthen her stakes, and spread out her curtains." Hundreds of thousands are fighting for their country; let the Convention move "pro Ecclesiâ Dei." The doctrines and discipline of the holy Apostolic Church only want to be known among these people. Hundreds of young men are now at home, and more will come who from their wounds will be unfit for hard work, but who could work in the ministry of the church, and many a heart has been touched with religious impulses. There are still many plantations where the negroes go their

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own ways and want guidance; there are many farms where the white people want the ministry of the Word.

On Sunday, the 19th of October, the people of Fair Bluff begged me to give them a service in their Methodist church; just as I was going to which, I met a gentleman, who told me my brother-in-law had come from Kentucky on sick furlough, and was gone from Marion to the Boro', and offered me a seat in his carriage; but I had promised the service, and it went on. I had a full and attentive congregation, and in the afternoon several ladies held a Sunday-school of white and black children mixed together. I determined to return to Conwayboro', if only just to say to the aged parent in England I have now seen both your daughter and her husband. So for the seventh time the weary way was traversed.

After a hunt through the Boro' the gallant and abnegatory Captain W——, of Bragg's pet regiment, the 10th South Carolina, turned up at the refuge of one of his constituents, the enterprising Mr. Morgan of George Town, whose kind and agreeable wife insisted on our celebrating the meeting with a bottle of sparkling champagne. The rough handling of Mars had made sad inroads on my relative's

appearance; but the great improvement in the cause of the South cheered his heart, which will be the best guarantee for restoration to health. Nothing could exceed the joy of the negro servants at the safe return of their beloved Massa.

Brief was my interview with him; my time was to be kept. A parson is not his own master; my flock at Ardeley could not be forgotten.

CHAPTER XIV.

Off for Richmond, en route to New York.

On my return to Fair Bluff I found that, on account of the yellow fever raging at Wilmington, I must take the longer route to Richmond, viâ Columbia, Charlotte, and Raleigh. From Columbia I proceeded by an evening train; every car was full. The ticket clerk only laughed at the request of myself and others to put on another car. So I stood on the platform and holloaed out as loud as I could, "Another car!" After a bit, some gentlemen joined me in the demand, and at last a conductor came up and said a car would be provided; but, quel horreur! when we entered it, just at starting time, we found all the windows broken; the darkness had just come on, and a sharp frost was setting in. I never spent a more uncomfortable night, for, having intended to return in summer, I had only a thin Scotch plaid with me. We reached Charlotte, 130