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which brought so much wealth and prosperity within its 

 walls. The population numbers about one hundred thou- 

 sand souls, equally divided between the Hindoos and the 

 Mohammedans. 



My friend had been suffering in health for several days. 

 He had not complained much ; but I could see sickness 

 in his growing weakness, and in the hectic of his counte- 

 nance. Repeatedly did I e ^press my anxiety on his ac- 

 count, but he always silenced me, by remark, ig that the 

 trifling illness would soon pass- away. But I knew his real 

 situation. As soon as we were comfortably fixed in 

 lodgings, in Ahmed abad, I sought out an English physi- 

 cian, the only one in the city, and brought him to my 

 friend, who had now become so ill that he could not walk 

 about. Dr. O'Toole, as the physician was named, quickly 

 decided upon the nature of Mr. Barrill's sickness. He 

 said that he was about to suffer from a severe attack of 

 the malignant fever, which strangers usually take by long 

 exposure in hot countries ; and from that day until the 

 expiration of six weeks, my friend's body was a ball of 

 play between life and death. I never left his bedside ex- 

 cept to satisfy the demands of nature. If he had been my 

 brother, he could not have received more entire sympathy 

 from me. He mentioned no want, however trifling, that 

 I did not make an effort to supply. Oh ! how joyfully 

 my heart beat, when the doctor confirmed me in the belief 



