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the cool fhade of the large trees, invited by the pleafant 

 breeze from the north, which leemed to be merely local, 

 confined to this fmall grove, created probably by the vici- 

 nity of the water, and tlie agitation we had occafipncd 

 in it. 



In this helplefs ftate to which w€ were reduced, I alone 

 continued not weakened by th-e iimoom, nor overcome by 

 fleep. A Ganjar Arab, who drove an afs laden with fait, took 

 this opportunity of Healing one of the mules, together with 

 a lance and fhield belonging to one of my fervants. The 

 country was fo woody, and he had fo much advantage of 

 us in point of time, and we were in fo weak and discoura- 

 ged a ftate, that it was thought in vain to purfue him one 

 llep. So he got olF with his booty, unlefs he was intercept- 

 ed by fome of thofe wild bcafts, which he would find eve- 

 rywhere in his way, whether he returned to Ras el Feel, 

 or the frontiers of Kiiara, his own country. 



Having refrefhed ourfelves with a little fleep, the next 

 thing was to fill our girbas, or fkins, with water. But be- 

 fore we attempted this, I thought to try an experiment of 

 mixing about twenty drops of fpirit of nitre in a horn of 

 ■waier about the fize of an ordinary tumbler. This I found 

 greatly refrefhed me, tliough my headach ftill continued. 

 It had a much better efTecfl upcn my fervants, to whom I 

 gave it ; for they all feemed immediately recovered, and 

 their fpirits much more fo, from the rcfledlion that they 

 had with them a remedy they could truft to, if they fliould 

 again be fo imforiunate as to meet this poifonous wind or 

 vapour. 



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