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by confining myself to it alone, became well 

 enough in a few days to sit upon horseback. My 

 landlady was very attentive to me during my 

 sickness, and gave me great relief by dressing 

 my sores, as I had become so emaciated that my 

 hip and elbow bones had cut through my skin ; 

 and the irritating disease I had contracted had 

 broken out into ulcers all over my body. I de- 

 termined to leave Hector to await the arrival of 

 the messenger that had been despatched to Domo 

 for the Shea butter, and return to the Quorra ; 

 sending the boat back for him immediately. The 

 king very civilly supplied us with horses; and 

 after a most distressing ride, in which, short as 

 it was, I fainted three times under the excru- 

 ciating pains of my sores, I got into my boat. 

 Hector returned to the town, and the next even- 

 ing I reached the Alburkah. On my telling Mr. 

 Allen that the boat would return for Hector, he 

 expressed a wish to visit the town ; and on my 

 sending the boat back in a day or two with Sars- 

 field, he took a passage in her, and fixed the 

 latitude 8° 7' N. and the meridional distance, 

 east of Stirling, at the confluence, 0' 12" E. 



In a few days Hector returned ; he had been 

 but partly successful, having got but very little 



