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401) CkEOPATHA's DAUGHTERSTE. MARCIA^A ¦...
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• #? On Easter Monday We Left Our House,...
not in- 1841 so friendly as in 1861 . Panthers , hyenas , jackals , wild boarslynxesand other beastswere in the woodsclose to
the house door , ; but , the mistress of , the house knew well , the use of fire-arms , and , _though often days alone , was never afraid .
Panthers are not common near Ste . Adelaide bow , but our friends had seen the footmarks of one a few days before we came , and in
years past were obliged to be constantly on the watch ; a horrible and most formidable beast is the panther of North Africa , much
more dreaded by the people here than the lion . But dangers from wild beasts , the hardships of house building ,
drained constant soil drud int gery o deep , torrents ditches of the rain scorchin , ploughing g sun up utt the er li isolation ght
_unand a thousand other evils , Madam , e Adelaide made , light of . She , had youth and energyand struggled through with a certain
_enjoytment ; but there was one , horrible and invisible enemy of which she could not speak without tears in her eyes—that enemy was the
enemy of all the colonists—the fiend , fever . Poor woman ! we could not ask her much about this , for she had
lost three children , and all the family had suffered much . Not only had they all had the fever once , but some of them many
• times . Monsieur ( Madame Adelaide ' s husband ) told us that once he was
so ill with the fever , that the doctor said he must certainly die if he remained a night longer in the valley , and that , to give him the
merest chance of life , his wife must take him to the nearest hosital . Plis wife was alone "with him in the housetheir two sons
p having gone to Algiers upon business ; she locked , up the house , and went off with her husband to the hospitalwhere she took up
, her abode , and by her constant attendance and good sense probably saved his life . Butin her anxietyshe forgot to put up a paper
on the door saying where , she was gone , , so that when the two sons _oame back their uneasiness was very great , and not allayed by
their nearest neighbours telling them that their father was dead and their mother gone to bury him .
It was not very easy for us to picture to ourselves all the misery . Madame Adelaide had . gone through , as we sat down , a party of
_^ i ght , to her substantial and elegant breakfast ; but , after all , many . a lady in London who " receives" in her handsome drawing-room
, has suffered as much from the hardships of civilization , as this colonist ' s wife from the horrors of _smcivilization ; so we will not
pity the last , except for the horrors of living in the unhealthy climate of Africa ; andindeedMadame Adelaide assured uswith
her French politeness , , ( though , we did not believe her , ) that , to receive us was compensation enough ; and it was evident that to
receive " Milor C et sa suite , " as the newspapers called our partydid give great satisfaction to the whole family .
For , the men of the family , the enjoyments of this life are
numerous ; the hunting and fishing , excellent . Think of killing sixty-nine
401) Ckeopatha's Daughterste. Marcia^A ¦...
401 ) _CkEOPATHA ' s DAUGHTERSTE . _MARCIA _^ A ¦ : , ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 2, 1863, page 406, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02021863/page/46/
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