324 OLD AGE AT RADACK. 
visit us, not knowing whether we were friends 
or foes; but when he heard that Totabu was 
arrived, he determined to make an effort to see 
me once more before his death. The old man 
crawled up to me and embraced me, shedding 
tears of joy; he talked a great deal, and spoke 
of Kadu being with Lamari in Aur. 
On my former visit, the traces of old age 
were scarcely perceptible in Langediu ; but in 
the intervening eight years they had increased 
rapidly ; still, although his body was so weak 
that he could only crawl on all-fours, he re- 
tained all the faculties of his mind, all his 
original vivacity and good-humour, and his 
facetious remarks excited the merriment of the 
whole assembly. I have in many instances ob- 
served that at Radack, old age brings with it 
no particular disease, and that the mind re- 
mains unimpaired till its mortal covering sinks 
into the grave. A fine climate, moderate la- 
bour, and a vegetable diet, probably ali con- 
tribute to produce this effect. 
Langediu having intimated his wish to see 
the Oa ellip, I immediately rowed in my boat 
to the ship, followed by him in his Oa warro, 
