I inquired whether Speke had left a medicine-chest with him.

He replied that it was a very feverish country, and that he and his people had used all the medicine.
Thus my last hope of quinine was cut off.

I had always trusted to obtain a supply from the king, as Speke had told me that he had left a bottle with him.

It was quite impossible to obtain any information from him, and I was carried back to my hut, where I found Mrs.Baker lying down with fever, and neither of us could render assistance to the other.
On the following morning the king again appeared.

I was better, and had a long interview.