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hurt the man too much, so I let it get cold a little 

 and poured it on to his leg. He did not seem to feel 

 it, nor did he wince at all ; so I said that would not do, 

 and that next time I should give it him boiling hot. 

 I put the pan on the fire again, and when next I 

 poured the grease on, it fizzed and crackled in the 

 same way that bacon does ; but the most curious 

 part of the operation was that the man, who a person 

 would have supposed would have almost fainted 

 with pain, only winced, much in the same way as 

 people may be seen to do w^hen they have had a 

 tooth drawn. 



It is difficult to explain this ; but it is the case, 

 that all the black races will endure many surgical 

 operations of the roughest sort, but directly strong 

 medicine is given them it seems to kill them at once. 

 I made the man pour a little milk over the w^ound, 

 gave him five rhubarb pills to take, and told him to 

 go and lie down in the shade. I did not hear after- 

 wards that he had died, so I think he must have re- 

 covered. I may as well tell the reader that I had a 

 most excellent medicine-chest with m.e, and was very 

 well provided with almost everything that was neces- 

 sary. These are the different descriptions of drugs 

 the chest contained : — A good quantity of quinine in 

 two-grain pills, rhubarb pills, chlorodyne, a sedative 

 solution of opium for diarrhoea, Warburg's fever tine- 



