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(ii) State why the cases had been unloaded on the opposite bank of the river and
why they had been unloaded before it was daylight.
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Question 3var. But whenWrite a notice to bedors. It wapromote to thehen the usual evening storm came on, everything had to be hastily carriedso very tiring to treat the patients in the sun. 1. therefore, decided tok of hospital the small windowless building which the doctor beforefor many years as a chicken house. I soon found that the air becameroom where I had little place to move after a cupboard and an oldbeen put in the work in the shade was a relief, and I always felt happydaging my patients while the rain rattled on the roof.(a) Your school is conducting an inter-house dance competition. Writeput up in your school informing the students about the event.() Write an email to a famous dancer requesting him/her to be the judicompetition giving all the necessary details.Question 4the judge at the danceme had used forthick in the samp bed had beas I went onneaning of the following words as used in the passage: One word answersGive the meaning ofmission at Lambarenering my first few days,spaid to these ordersork was difficult. The(ii) stacked (line 21)rse(iii) relief (line 37)(b) Answer the follanding stage as 10121Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:Before my arrival. strict orders had been widely published by the mission at Lamor short phrases will be accepted.that only the most serious cases were to be brought to me during my first few(i) enormous (line 18)so that I might have time to settle in Naturally little attention was paid to theseand sick people appeared at every hour of the day. Practical work was difficulinterpreter I had engaged by letter before leaving Europe had not turned up andto rely on anyone I could find in the compound, however imperfect he might be. W.still, although orders had been given for medical supplies, these had not arrivedver the following questions briefly in your own words.I had no drugs, instruments or bandages apart from those I had brought in my trLate one dark night my wife and I heard the whistle of the steamer, and the followinHow did the narrator deal with the patients before the medical suppliesmorning we learned that our cases had been unloaded, not at our landing stagearrived?arranged but at the Catholic mission station, which lies on the opposite bank of the mainriver. The captain had refused to risk entering our narrow twisting branch stream withhis ship, and could not wait for daylight as he was already behind schedule. We wenthurriedly across to make sure that all seventy cases had arrived. Amongst them was ahuge metal-lined case containing my organ. This weighed over a ton and none of theavailable canoes could carry that weight. However, the next morning two missionariesarrived from Ngomo with ten of their workers in an old canoe which they had borrowedfrom a store there. It had been hollowed out from an enormous tree trunk and could(ii) State why the cases had been unloaded on the opposite bank of the river andcarry up to three tons of cargo. The organ and several other boxes were brought overon the first crossing, and by the end of the day, after six more trips, everything was 20why they had been unloaded before it was daylight.stacked on the river below the mission.It took two more days of sweat and toil to carry the cases up the hill to themission. Then we began unpacking, and met our next problem. I had been promised acorrugated-iron building as a hospital, but not even the framework was standing when(iii) How did the narrator retrieve all the seventy cases?I arrived. There were simply no spare labourers to be had; for months the timber tradehad been very good and the traders offered wages with which the mission could notcompete. There was consequently no proper space to store all our medical equipmentand supplies, and we had to make do with some shelves put up in my sitting room,where the most important drugs were put.I was worried at having no place in which to examine and treat the sick. Being unable 30to do this in my own room for risk of infection, I treated and bandaged the sick in the