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medics which physic makes use of in these diseases. 

 My sufferings, instead of abating, continued to 

 increase every day. Vv^earied with my position, I 

 ordered several poppy-heads to be brought to me ; 

 these I had boiled in some water, which I drank 

 when night came on. In a very short time I ex- 

 perienced the effects of this narcotic. I was soon 

 asleep, and whilst sleeping [ disencumbered myself 

 of the props which kept me upright, I fell stretched 

 out at full length, and after a profound slumber of 

 fifteen hours I awoke again without feeling any 

 pain: the eye had returned into its socket entirely 

 cleansed ; in a word, completely cured. There 

 only remained a weakness in my eyes, but this was 

 not of long continuance; and my sight became, in 

 a short time, as good and as clear as it was before. 



During my convalescence, I was under the ne- 

 cessity of changing my lodging. ^U Kiasdief^ the 

 owner of the house which I occupied, arrived with 

 his harem and all his train, and I yielded up the 

 place to him. A small house was hired for me ; in 

 front there was a court, which, to tell the truth, 

 was not a very spacious one. I occupied the 

 whole of it, and for the rent of this habitation I 

 gave only two med'mas, or rather more than a penny 

 a day ; and it is to be presum.ed, that, in my 

 quality of foreigner, I was made to pay a higher 

 price than another would have done. 



I often 



