1028 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1805. 



very unwilling to leave me behind, *he health of both soul and body 



and equ4liy avt'rsc to run the hazard with urremittiiig diliguue; and £ 



of removing me, as in that case the will do them the justice tosa), that, 



fathers very charital)ly assured him notwithstanding the disMpated lives 



they could consider him in no oth.r led by the generality, mme can be 



ligiit than as my immediate niur- more attenlive to ihe sick liiiin they 



derer. At last, however, with <{reat are. Not (hat they stUvl) pharmacy 



difficulty he was jjcrsuaded by fa with miy decree of science, as our 



ther Da.10 — the governor's phv&i- practitioners do: but their know- 



cian — and M. boderina, to confide ledge in the cttecfs and quality of 



me to them ; at the same time as- herbs and simples i^ very exter.sive. 



surinj; him, in the most solemn man. ']"ho virtues of every |)lant the) have 



ner, that nothing on their parts discovered; and as the waters of La 



should be neglected to forward my Pla'a, when drank by Europeans, 



recovery; and if, in despight of are in many cases fatal, providence 



every endeavour, the disorder shoMld has planted, for the beneht of man, 



at last prove fatal, a proper attested in all the dili'erent islands on this 



account of my death should be trans- 

 mitted to New Vork. This satisfied 

 him ; and, leaving with Soderina a 

 letter of credit on his uncle at Phi- 

 ladelphiafor whatever I might want, 

 helultme, though by Jerome's ac- 



wonderful river a vast variety of 

 medicinal herbs, which, when ap- 

 plied by a skilful botanist, s^rve as 

 an antidote to the pernicious beve- 

 rage, as well as for the dangeronf? 

 efVe6ts arising from too great an in- 



-count with great reluctance; so dulgencc in the eating of fruit — with 

 much, indeed, that he even shed every kind of which, pi a<;;es in par- 

 tfars as he quitted the apartment, tictdar, this coun'ry abounds. 

 Worthy, alfeclionate creature ! and 

 ifhcuvcn spare me but to see him 

 once again, I wi'l amply recompense 

 his disinterested Iri- ndslnp. 



'• When my holy friends had ex- 

 hausted their whole stock of pre- 

 scriptions, and I still remained in 

 the same melancholy state, it was 



"Before his departure he made the judged proper by the governor — to 



fathers a present of rum and to- 

 bacco ; which, it seems, serves 

 as barter between them and the In- 

 dians. 



" The father provincial at Monte 

 "Video kept me there until there was 

 BO longer any danger to be feared 

 from the fever, and his whole at- 

 tention was then devoted to the res 

 toration of my reason. My head 



^^■as shaved, blisters applied, and fion. My friend brother Jeromehav- 

 cvery other remedy that cinie within ing had thecareof mein agrcat mea- 

 the knowledge of my spiritual phy- sure at Monte Video, obtained leave 

 jicians. The priesis in this part of of the superior to continue that 

 the world are the only Europeans charitable otficc upon my coming 

 that profess any knowledge of medi- here ; which he has done, 1 am cer- 

 ciuc : they therefore administer to tain, in a most exemplary manner. 



" But 



whom my case had been daily made 

 knouu — to havenie conveyed to this 

 town, which is the capital of the 

 province of La Plata, ae.d placed 

 under the care of the lathers of St. 

 Dominic, from whose monastery I 

 now write. J was, in consequence, 

 immediately removed hither. The 

 letter of credit gained nic admission, 

 and at the same time particular aften- 



