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great hopes, though not then fourteen. He came to fee his 

 mother without my knowledge or her's, and was infected 

 likewife. Laft of all the infant child of Michael, the child 

 of his old age, took the difeafe, and though the weakeft, of 

 all the children, recovered belt I tell thefe actions for bre- 

 vity's fake altogether, not directly in the order they hap- 

 pened, to fatisfy the reader about the reafon of the remark- 

 able attention and favour mewed to me afterwards upon 

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The fear and anxiety of Ozoro Efther, upon fmaller occa- 

 fions, was excemve, and fully in proportion in the great- 

 er that now exiftcd ; many promifes of Michael's fa- 

 vour, of riches, greatnefs, and protection, followed every inr- 

 itance of my care and attention towards my patients. She 

 did not eat or fleep herfelf ; and the ends of her fingers 

 were all broke out into puftules, from touching the feveral 

 lick perfons. Confu, the favourite of all the queen's rela- 

 tions, and the hopes of their family, had fymptoms which 

 all feared would be fatal, as he had violent convulfions, 

 which were looked upon as forerunners of immediate death; 

 they ceafed, however, immediately on the eruption. The 

 attention I mewed to this young man, which was more 

 than overpaid by the return he himfelf made on many oc- 

 eafions afterwards, was greatly owing to a prepofTemon in 

 his favour, which I took upon his full appearance. Policy, 

 as may be imagined, as well as charity, alike influenced 

 me in the care of my other patients ; but an attachment,, 

 which providence feemed to have infpired me with for my 

 own prefervation, had the greatell fhare in my care for Ay-- 

 ^o' Confu, 



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