eight in the
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If you have an opportunity send one of these letters down to the coast . Keep the other yourself , and I trust that you will live to carry it to its destination . Should it not be so , should the worst come to the worst , it will be a consolation to you to know that I have not forgotten the little sister of whom you have spoken to me so often , and that in case of your death she will be provided for . '' An hour later Mr. Goodenough was in a state of delirium , in which he remained all night , falling towards morning into a dull coma , gradually breathing his last , without any return of sensibility , at eight in the morning . Frank was utterly prostrated with grief , from which he roused himself to send to the king to ask permission to bury his friend . The king sent down to say how grieved he was to hear of the white man 's death . He had ordered many of his warriors to attend his funeral .