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'I called you here, resumed her aunt, colouring, 'to tell you, that I will not be disturbed in my own house by any letters, or visits from young men, who may take a fancy to flatter you. This M. de Valantine I think you call him, has the impertinence to beg I will permit him to pay his respects to me! I shall send him a proper answer.
After a residence of one week at Bombay, during which time I completed our outfit in scientific instruments and other minor points for this charge was reposed in me, owing to my previous experience in those matters we set sail on the 3d December 1856, taking two Goanese cook "boys," by name Valantine and Gaetano, with us as servants, and in eighteen days landed at our destination, Zanzibar.
A compact was accordingly concluded, by which Bombay became my servant for the time being, at five dollars per mensem, with board and lodging on the journey found him. The jemadar now left us, with a present for himself and the hire of his men, and we were all alone. On the 1st March a violent bilious fever attacked me, and also floored Captain Burton and Valantine.
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