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I was certainly awake ; I had no sense of awaking afterwards, but the sense of waking before I saw the figure, ray first impression having been that the steward had come in to shut the port-hole. I had a light burning in my cabin. The figure looked quite solid and natural, and was in day-dress. I knew the girl to be consumptive, but had not thought of her as likely to die, and indeed had not been thinking about her at all ; she was an acquaintance and neighbour, but not an intimate friend. I think the vessel was about half-way to the Cape. Next day I described what I had seen to my cousin, Mr. Jenour, Captain Wait, Mr. Frames, who is now a lawyer in Grahamstown, and Mr. Hope Hall. I was so impressed that I could not help speaking of it, in spite of expecting to be laughed at : had it been a dream, I should have thought nothing of it. I am certain I mentioned the date of my vision in my first letter to my father, written when I got to the Cape, and before the news of the death reached me ; and I am also certain that when I received the news of the death, I noted, and my cousin noted, that the dates were the same. I cannot now be sure of the exact day. I have had no other such waking vision except once, soon after, at Capetown ; when I saw the figure of a dressmaker whom I knew in England, and who (as I learnt on my return to England) had died about the same time ; but the date was not fixed. a j£ j» We find from the obituary in the Times that the death took place on May 2, 1883. Miss Jenour's cousin is unfortunately at a distance, and his address cannot at present be ascertained. Captain Wait writes, in April, 1886, that he does not recall Miss Jenour's mention of the incident. The fact of the coincident death not being then known, such a narration might naturally make very little impression. I wrote to ask Mr. Frames if he remembered any singular announcement made by Miss Jenour during the voyage ; but he replied in the negative. Miss Jenour's father writes on Nov. 1, 1885 : — I can positively state that by the next mail to the Cape, after the death of a young friend of ours, I wrote to my daughter ; but before my letter can have reached her, she, on arriving at Capetown, wrote to me to say that the lady in question had appeared to her in her cabin, at sea, between Madeira and the Cape, and that she mentioned the fact the following morning to her relatives and friends on board. On comparing dates, it was certain that the appearance was on the same day that the lady died. Since then my relatives have confirmed this in every particular.