Transcribe Hornaday, W. T. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1877-06-11)

and then they assisted me a little more. I had just my Madras servant with me only. I got 1 Cervulus Aureus. [male] skin, 1 Rusa Aristotelus, [male] skin. 2 Gavatus Gaurus, [male], 1 skin, 1 skel. 3 Presbytis priamus, 1 skin, 2 skels. 3 Sciurus Malabaricus, skins and 1 Pteroniys petaurista, skin. It was an unhealthy place, and the natives warned us to get out. Though not at all satisfied I prepared to get out-- after a stay of 13 days-- and while we were packing our things the fever caught me. I tried my best to fight it off but the way it took the life out of me from the first was something fearful.

Well, by desperate work my servant & I reached Ooty at the end of the 2nd day, the subscriber feeling more dead than alive. But we left the bullock cart behind 12 miles., at the foot of the Ghant to get on as fast as possible. As soon as we arrived my servant dropped down, also sick with fever. I came up the Ghant on a gentleman's horse. Capt Campbell came along, found me lying loosely at the roadside with no way to get on, so he kindly dismounted & put me on his horse,