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

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have put a couple of big balls into one of those broad foreheads. I stalked that old *tusker* six or eight times with perfect success, to within 8 or 10 yards, I could *easily* have gone up & caught hold his tail. Well, I planned to go back there & bring back his skeleton and one other so cheaply that you would be astonished. But alas! for us both, the fever caught me. The Dr. said it was fortunate for me my constitution is so good, or I would not get rid of it for a long time. I took *every care* of myself down there that I could think of, & felt *jolly* until the fever came. It was the awful water, of which I *had* to drink some.

Well, I don't know how you feel about it Prof, but I'm pretty nigh disheartened over the last months operations and expenses. I enclose my expense a/c for May, and the total is simply terrific, especially since there is nothing to show for it. I feel like I ought to explain something, but I don't know what. I've been as economical as I know *how* to be without going to extremes, and I've been hard at work all the time. Those two trips off hunting both disappointed me, and yet I