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referent in mare te novi fluctus, O quid agis ? THIRD 



. JOURNEY. 



iortiter occupa portum." I awoke at midnight ; - 

 a cruel head-ach, thirst, and pain in the small of 

 the back, informed me what the case was. Had 

 Chiron himself been present, he could not have 

 told me more distinctly that I was going to have 

 a tight brush of it, and that I ought to meet 

 it with becoming fortitude. I dozed, and woke, 

 and startled, and then dozed again, and suddenly 

 awoke, thinking I was falling down a precipice. 



The return of the bats to their diurnal retreat, 

 which was in the thatch above my hammock, 

 informed me that the sun was now fast approach- 

 ing to the eastern horizon. I arose, in languor 

 and in pain, the pulse at one hundred and twenty. 

 I took ten grains of calomel and a scruple of jalap, 

 and drank during the day large draughts of tea, 

 weak and warm. The physic did its duty ; but 

 there was no remission of fever or head-ach, 

 though the pain of the back was less acute. I 

 was saved the trouble of keeping the room cool, 

 as the wind beat in at every quarter. 



At five in the evening the pulse had risen to 

 one hundred and thirty, and the head-ach almost 

 insupportable, especially on looking to the right 

 or left. I now opened a vein, and made a large 

 orifice, to allow the blood to rush out rapidly ; I 

 closed it after losing sixteen ounces. I then 

 steeped my feet in warm water, and got into the 

 hammock. After bleeding, the pulse fell to ninety, 



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