I am now only 700 miles from Calcutta, and have been here seven weeks with malarial fever, and also with attacks of ague and another kind of fever. I am just about as weak as there is any need for, and I do not know when I will be able to take to the road again. Was in a local hospital for nearly two weeks, then I left and had not got more than a mile until I came to the cantonments where the Black Watch Regiment, 42nd Highland Brigade is stationed.